The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)

(^370) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS
in 1878 the Satsuma warriors, in their gorgeous robes and terrifying
armor, brandishing steel swords that could cleave a body at a blow or
slice a floating, gossamer piece of silk, pranced and bragged before
the impassive, stolid ranks of a disciplined, uniformed peasant army
equipped with muskets. And when the smoke cleared, the flower of
Japanese chivalry lay dead.