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Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba 2

Why should this flower delay so long
  To show its tremulous plumes?
Now is the time of plaintive robin-song,
  When flowers are in their tombs.

Through the slow summer, when the sun
  Called to each frond and whorl
That all he could for flowers was being being done,
  Why did it not uncurl?

("The Last Chrysanthemum", Thomas Hardy)

In 1274 and 1281, the Mongols tried to invade the Japanese islands twice. Their efforts were failed both from the heavy resistance from the Japanese as well as the natural factors, the storm, that kept destroying the Mongol invading armadas. This historical episode has many lasting impacts for the Japanese people, including a myth that Japan was unconquerable and protected by divine powers as well as the continuation of warrior rule in the Japanese society.

However, what if the Mongol invasion of Japan had succeeded? What will happen to the Japanese society at all? What are the impacts of this divergence in the future? This timeline will explore that possibility.

This timeline is first started by FirstStooge (talk) on 16:48, February 12, 2012 (UTC)

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Main POD[]

The successful Mongol invasion to Japan in 1282 changed the Japanese society drastically. Japan was subjugated as a tributary state for Yuan Dynasty for about 80 years. The failure of the Bakufu military government to defy the invasion led to the collapse of warrior rule in the island. Japanese society and culture thus become less militarized than in OTL. Together with the court aristocratic class, a new class of bureaucratic scholars emerged and dominated the politics of Medieval Japan. New social order based on Confucianism was established, resulted to the period of domestic peace and stability. As result, there is no Sengoku period; science, technology, and education were more emphasized during this peacetime era.

See: Mongol invasions of Japan

Other PODs[]

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A holm divides a river, creating two stream routes.

Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum is a "catch-all" timeline and contains many sub-timelines on it. Outside the main Point of Divergence, this timeline has many points of divergence, mostly minor and has limited impact or Butterfly Effect outside the boundary of its time and location. That kind of departure point is called on this timeline as a Holm, Germanic word for an islet in the middle of river, in an analogy that islet that only dividing the stream, but not creating another river from it.

Major Holms[]

  • 1283 – Burmese monks from the Conjeveram-Thaton school move from Bagan Kingdom to Assam in the north and convert Subinphaa of Ahom to Theravada Buddhism (see India).
  • 1814 – Napoleon I of the French Empire accepts the terms of surrender offered by the Sixth Coalition and abdicates thereafter, leaving the throne to be ascended by his infant son Napoleon II (see France).
  • 1818 – Frederick VI of Denmark is elected as the Crown Prince of Sweden (see Scandinavia).
  • 1844 – Henry Clay is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat James K. Polk (see Jacksonian Democracy).
  • 1864 – The Confederate States of America seceding from the United States (see Confederate States and War of Southern Secession).
  • 1871 – Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen is elected and crowned as the King of Spain (see Spain under the Hohenzollerns).
  • 1912 – Theodore Roosevelt is elected to the third term as the President of the United States (see Theodore Roosevelt and United States presidential election, 1912).
  • 1921 – Joseph Stalin dies due to the complications from acute appendicitis (see Soviet Union).

Minor Holms[]

One or more minor holms usually being only an ornament in a larger, major holm. Its influences on my timeline ranged from very small to nothing, so it is not even diverging the history.

  • 1613 – Dmitry Troubetskoy is elected as the Tsar of Russia, albeit not hereditary. Russia is an elective monarchy from 1613 to 1661 (see Russian Empire).
  • 1776 – Benjamin Franklin is elected as the President of the Continental Congress (see Benjamin Franklin and American Revolution).
  • 1793 – Prince Augustus Frederick, son of King George III of Great Britain, is ordained priest of Church of England (see Augustus Frederick) (adopted from The Bishop Royal).
  • 1812 – Elbridge Gerry is elected fifth President of the United States (see Elbridge Gerry) (adopted from President Elbridge Gerry).
  • 1920 – C. B. Fry accepts the offer to the Albanian throne and is crowned as King Charles I of the Albanians (see Albania).

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Canon[]

Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum is a semi-open timeline. Every contributing writer should first consider the canonical development of existing timelines. Any article can be accepted by the reviewer as canonical in this timeline as long as it does not deviate from or differ from the canon of Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum and has good grammar, organized writing, and a plausible and sound scenario or story. What is considered canon and what can change it can be discussed with the timeline's owner-reviewer as long as the owner-reviewer finds it rational.

It is absolutely forbidden to create another POD before the major diverging event of the timeline (1282) which itself is considered as unmovable and unchangeable.

Also, please understand that anything unwritten on this timeline does not mean it has not been considered by the owner-creator. Always ask me first before putting your ideas or inserting any proposal for CPC. Maybe you have a better idea than mine, but there is also a chance you do not. So, feel free to ask me and discuss your ideas.

For further understanding of the idea of canon, proposals, and probability, please read first about QSS and QAA.

Proposals[]

Anyone who wishes to contribute to this timeline can put up a proposed article. However, to credit a writing rule from one of the most distinguished fellows of this community, JorgeGG, please create a proposal that relevant to this alternate timeline, or in his words: "Don't waste time explaining things that are the same in OTL." If a proposal is still lacking divergence or mainly consisting almost similar history to the real-life, then it should not be created at the first place.

To put up a proposed article, please copy the following template at the top of article: {{Proposal|timeline = Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum}}

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Incorporated timelines[]

Several timelines and pages associated with these timelines have been incorporated into Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum. The timelines listed below have been properly adopted following the adoption policy and are considered appropriate to merge into this timeline based on the following reasonable justifications:

  1. The narratives of the incorporated timelines do not change the already canonical narrative of Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum, either because they fall outside the major points of divergence or because they occupy unexplored areas of the scenario that have not yet been written into the canon.
  2. The narratives of the incorporated timelines are not changed by the already canonical narrative of Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum in any way that diverges from the original intentions of their creators, in accordance with the principles of QSS and QAA.
  3. The incorporated timelines have not been updated for five years or more, or were created by users who are permanently banned from this wiki. This minimizes or eliminates conflicts of interest between the creator/previous caretaker and me, the new caretaker.

Therefore, the following is the list of said timelines and the associated pages which are adopted, incorporated and expanded into the main narrative of Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum:

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