 DATE: SPOILER: During the execution rescue scene as Aramis and  Porthos assure DArtagnan that his rescue is at hand, Porthos  remarks that the axe was a "gift from the Tsarina of Tokyo." The  Three Musketeers story takes place between 1625 and 1628, a full 240  years before the city of Edo in Japan is renamed "Tokyo" by the  Emperor Meiji in 1868. Regardless of how far fetched Porthos claims  may be intended to be, there is no historical way he could have  known the term "Tokyo," which means "Eastern Capital" in traditional  or archaic Japanese.