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Chotto Edo Made (Japanese: ちょっと江戸まで, "Just Going to Edo") is a Japanese alternate history romantic comedy shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Masami Tsuda. [1] [2] Published by Hakusensha, it was serialized on LaLa magazine from 2008 to August 2011 [2] and six volumes compiling the chapters were released. [1]
The story follows Kumomaru, a Japanese samurai who travels to Europe during the 1930s and becomes embroiled in a plot to steal the legendary Japanese sword Kusanagi.While in Europe, Kumomaru befriends Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso and attempts to stop Major General Kamishima and his Nazi allies from conquering China.
Tōyama no Kin-san (遠山の金さん) is a popular character based on the historical Tōyama Kagemoto, a samurai and official of the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period of Japanese history. [1] In kabuki and kōdan, he was celebrated under his childhood name, Kinshirō, shortened to Kin-san.
Sakamoto was a low-ranking samurai from the Tosa Domain on Shikoku and became an active opponent of the Tokugawa Shogunate after the end of Japan's sakoku isolationist policy. Under the alias Saitani Umetarō ( 才谷梅太郎 ) , he worked against the Bakufu , the government of the Tokugawa shogunate , and was often hunted by their supporters ...
He is an itinerant blind masseur and swordsman of Japan's late Edo period (1830s and 1840s). He first appeared in the 1948 essay Zatoichi Monogatari ( 座頭市物語 ) , part of Shimozawa's Futokoro Techō series that was serialized in the magazine Shōsetsu to Yomimono .
Togari: The Sword of Justice (トガリ, Togari) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshinori Natsume.The story follows orphan Tobei, who was beheaded for committing countless crimes in the Edo period and sent to Hell where he suffered for 300 years.
Kamui (Japanese: カムイ伝, Hepburn: Kamui Den) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sanpei Shirato.It was serialized in Seirindō's monthly gekiga magazine Garo between December 1964 and July 1971, with its chapters collected in 21 tankōbon volumes.
Kawakami Gensai (河上 彦斎, 25 December 1834 – 13 January 1872) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period. A highly skilled swordsman, he was one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period. Gensai's high-speed sword discipline allowed him to assassinate targets in broad daylight.