Across all of the free world, long past civil wars are for cautionary plays, history buffs and costumed reenactors. Especially reenactors. Last week Japanese men and women of all ages came by the hundreds to suit up, close ranks and sprint into one another with the intention of pretending to rend anyone under the wrong banner limb from limb — as was the spirit of the times in the latter-15th and early-to-mid-16th Centuries before Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified the country under his rule.
You can't be lonely in this crowd. It doesn't exactly share the elegance of Ran, but must be good fun.