English: (cropped detail) The Civil War in Japan, Yedo Policeman going to the Seat of War in Satsuma. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 13 October 1877. full version
Battotai (Japanese sword police)
日本語: 抜刀隊
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English: Japanese book "History in the 100th years in the Meiji era: Chapter of Meiji era" published by Kodansha.
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