The rapid population increase in the 16th century should have been thanks to the potato, but in current historiography the potato is suspected of causing leprosy, and…
For the record, both “Serizawa Kamo” and “Okita Soji,” on the American side, were photographed under the belief they were the real person, but there’s also a theory they were body doubles. Someone once, back when they were hanging out with a group of Shinsengumi-loving women and pursuing the truth of the Shinsengumi (the late-Edo shogunate police force), was granted special permission, for memorial purposes, to secretly view inherited portraits and photographs at a now-declining temple connected to the Edo shogunate and the Kanto Genji lineage (I can’t write which temple because I don’t have permission, but apparently it’s also related to the Mandela Effect of “Shirokawa Prefecture”), and they said both were so stunningly beautiful it had a “Takarazuka” vibe (Takarazuka Revue, an all-female musical theater troupe). According to what they heard then, in the Edo period there were a considerable number of samurai-family women who, due to family circumstances, were raised as men (as a rule, the right of succession belonged to male descendants, but throughout the Edo period there were many masterless samurai; the shogunate and domains wanted to hire excellent rōnin by granting them vacant samurai registrations and house names where the male line had died out; and adoption for succession from blood relatives was not readily approved), and both of those individuals had been entrusted to other houses and raised as women living as men, and in the tumultuous Bakumatsu (late Edo) period there were quite a few such women swordmasters, and that seems to have been the true situation that got erased from history. Those female swordmasters (they) consumed large amounts of meat pickled in miso as a tonic for stamina, took in animal protein, and trained at a ferocity on the level of the Kamakura and Muromachi periods as a matter of course in daily life so as not to lose to men, and many of them had acquired the inhuman strength that pre-Sengoku-era samurai possessed, which male…
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.