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Actors playing samurai and ronin at Kyoto's Eigamura film studio. Jidaigeki is a genre of film, television, video game, and theatre in Japan. Literally meaning "period dramas", it refers to stories that take place before the Meiji Restoration of 1868. [1] Jidaigeki show the lives of the samurai, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants of their time.
As the stereotypical audience for jōruri and kabuki were the merchant classes of Edo period Japan, stories involving court nobles and heroic samurai were somewhat far removed from daily life, and the more everyday stories that dealt with contemporary, urban themes. Even though many of the viewers may have been samurai, the Edo period in which ...
A samurai in his armour in the 1860s. Hand-colored photograph by Felice Beato. Samurai or bushi (武士, [bɯ.ɕi]) were members of the warrior class in Japan.They were most prominent as aristocratic warriors during the country's feudal period from the 12th century to early 17th century, and thereafter as a top class in the social hierarchy of the Edo period until their abolishment in the ...
Actors playing samurai and ronin at Kyoto's Eigamura film studio. Chanbara (チャンバラ), also commonly spelled "chambara", meaning "sword fighting" films, [1] denotes the Japanese film genre called samurai cinema in English and is roughly equivalent to Western and swashbuckler films. Chanbara is a sub-category of jidaigeki, which equates ...
During the Edo period, the kashindan became a fixed samurai class, [1] and defined the political world of the samurai for centuries. [5] The kashindan held significant power in relation to the ruler; they made him swear to rule justly, to promote them in accordance to actual merit and to not assassinate them based on the suspicion of treason without telling them beforehand. [4]
John Blackthorne's new title "hatamoto" in 'Shogun' is rooted in real Japanese history, and marks a significant change for the character. Here's what it means.
During the Edo period, with the shogunate's rigid class system and laws, the number of rōnin greatly increased; confiscation of fiefs during the rule of the third Tokugawa shōgun Iemitsu resulted in an especially large increase of their number. [2] During previous ages, samurai were able to move between masters and even between occupations.
Sakamoto Ryōma (坂本龍馬 or 坂本竜馬, 3 January 1836 – 10 December 1867) was a Japanese samurai, a shishi and influential figure of the Bakumatsu, and establishment of the Empire of Japan in the late Edo period. Sakamoto was a low-ranking samurai from the Tosa Domain on Shikoku and became an active opponent of the Tokugawa Shogunate ...