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Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals’ wives and children hostage in Edo.
If any couple could have synthesized the impulses to rove and stay put, it's this one, but Beaufoy throws in the towel at the point where the husbands and wives of A Walk on the Moon and Metroland are just getting warmed up.
But more immediately, it was when the kapu system of taboos broke down completely under the leadership of young King Kamehameha II (the first king’s son, Liholiho) and the regent, Kaahumanu (the favorite of the 21 wives of the first king).
The best point either of us made all week was your Monday one about the division of labor between presidents and their wives.
Madam Regent attended church and the mission schools (which you can still visit in Honolulu) and burned images of the old Hawaiian gods, while Kamehameha II entertained lavishly in the company of his wives.