#maybe there's actually no set era and Iinuma was just throwing whatever in the mix cause it's not super historically accurate. which I

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Village Secrets || Headcanon || Time Period

Iinuma is not very straightforward when it comes to info dumping. Although the series is complete there are still many things I have questions for that will never be answered. One of the biggest ones being what time period is Itsuwaribito set in! Since we never get an outright answer I just have to guess and play it by ear.

Here's a very vague info dump on some established things I can recall to help get an idea of what era Utsuho and the gang are from.

Utsuho gets a lot of his information through scrolls. It was he who suggested they make a hot air balloon to get off Nadeshiko Island, Neya on the other hand had never heard of such a thing until he mentioned it.

When Yakuma is first introduced he's stationed in a small village trying to help their leader who is very sick but initially refuses to allow Yakuma to operate on him due to surgery being very new and unfamiliar in japan at the time.

The center of Japan is referred to as 'the capital'.

the currency used is mon (bronze and silver metal pieces) and ryo (gold koban-like coin pieces)

Guns exist in the form of bulky shotguns and aren't commonly used but are known, other weapons such as canons, arrows, swords, kunai, and crossbows are also still utilized.

For now all I can assume is that the series is set somewhere between the Muromachi and Meiji eras, or it's like some mash-up of feudal era japan.