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Drama, History, War. Aizu Domain, Tokugawa shogunate. 1981 Japan Why Not? ええじゃないか: Shōhei Imamura: Drama. Ee ja nai ka, Social reform uprising: 1985 Japan The Dagger of Kamui: カムイの剣: Rintaro: Animation, Action, Adventure. Based on a series of novels The Dagger of Kamui. 1986 Japan Bakumatsu Youth Graffiti Ronin Ryoma ...
Segodon (西郷どん, Mr. Saigō in Kagoshima dialect [1]) is a 2018 Japanese historical drama television series and the 57th NHK taiga drama. [2] It stars Ryohei Suzuki as Saigō Takamori , who has been dubbed the last true samurai .
"Miyasan, Miyasan" (宮さん宮さん) [note 1], was a loyalist song, popular during the Boshin War. [3] It is also Japan's oldest military song. [4] [5] Overview
Taiga drama (Japanese: 大河ドラマ, Hepburn: Taiga dorama, "Big River Drama") is the name NHK gives to the annual year-long historical drama television series it broadcasts in Japan. Beginning in 1963 with the black-and-white Hana no Shōgai , starring kabuki actor Onoe Shoroku II and Awashima Chikage, the network regularly hires different ...
Boshin (戊辰) is the designation for the fifth year of a sexagenary cycle in traditional East Asian calendars. [3] Although the war lasted for over a year, Boshin refers to the year that the war started in. The characters 戊辰 can also be read as tsuchinoe-tatsu in Japanese, literally "Elder Brother of Earth-Dragon". [3]
The series is set in the Bakumatsu era, with the Shogunate being in its final years, and war fast approaching. When Yojiro Akizuki, a dark and mysterious mercenary, nears something supernatural with some kind of importance to him, the ornament on the end of his sword hilt waves in its direction, his eyes glow mysteriously, and he is driven to go after it.
Moeyo Ken ("Burn My Sword") is the name of a famous 1964 novel by Ryōtarō Shiba about the Boshin War (1868 to 1869 CE) from the point of view of Hijikata Toshizō. It is regarded by Shinsengumi fans as the 'bible' of Shinsengumi fiction and was the first literary work to focus on Hijikata; previously, Shinsengumi stories tended to focus on ...
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