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In the movie Kagemusha (1980), an impersonator winks at the only person who knows his true identity. Did winking as a gesture of deceit exist in the Sengoku period in Japan? Is the origin of the wink known historically?

by /u/Phoenix_667 in /r/AskHistorians

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