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How did this man, who was public enemy number one, just travel around from Kyoto to Choshuu, pick up Kenshin and then go back again? Would he most likely have traveled by ship, on foot, or what? Did the Isshin Shishi use any secretive methods of transportation when they had to risk crossing han borders? Did they perhaps pretend to be traveling kabuki actors?