2 articles about Showa: A History of Japan
The subject by its numbers · The Opening
Reduced, this name gives 1. It sits on The Opening with the rest of a first move.
The reference files it as a first move. The number's contribution is beginnings, leadership, and the will to act alone — and with it the 1's appetite for a clean, decisive beginning, which is the thread the reference follows here.
The Opening — first moves, single authors, and things that had no precedent →Part 39: Mizuki’s Uncanny Ground: The Cartoon, The Real, and the Argument of Form
Part 230: The Echoes of War: Manga as Testimony, Numerology as Lens