The woefully limited way of Western thinking

As some of you might remember, I've done an awful lot of research for my Ninth Doctor/Tosh story, Travellers' Tales, which can be found on FF.Net and otherworlds_lib. *hint, hint*
Tis particular episode takes place in 12th century Japan, of which I've never known a thing before - well, save from a short mentioning in Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series at the Battle of Dan-no-ura.

Anyway, I was doing the sort of internet research when you start with one keyword on Google and then walk from link to link in Wikipedia. What I found was very interesting - in many ways, but I only want to talk about the so-called in-canon writing.
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