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I was talking way too much about Gintama on my RP blog, so I made this one to do it comfortably.
No one has ever followed me for my great design, but the current blog is a new low.
I'll get around to fixing it eventually.
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Takasugi the Peacemaker
l to r: Mitani Kunimatsu, Takasugi Shinsaku, Itou Hirobumi, 1865
One last time, we return to Itou Hirobumi’s account of life alongside his old schoolmate Takasugi Shinsaku. In this episode, Takasugi is forced to make peace, not war, with the British.
This is the last post of four: Chronologically, they run
Takasugi the Terrorist
Takasugi Founds the Kiheitai and gets Nagged by Katsura.
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! - The Tale of Omoi Tetsunosuke/Charles Pfoundes
Itou Hirobumi, pg. 396, the Far East,
It was not long before Takasugi, in one of his fits of impatience, bolted from Choshu and came up to Kyoto. For some reasons that I don’t know exactly, he was deprived of his annuity, and moreover, he was thrown into prison.
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I made this.
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Curly/wavy hair in the Bakumatsu - Happy Birthday Gin-chan!
October 10th is the birthday of Gintama’s protagonist, Sakata Gintoki, who is constantly complaining about his unusual “natural perm” hair.
(thanks to Colton of the Life Lessons Gintama Mangacast for finding Gintoki and Katsura’s first fight about hair)
Gintama is not known for its historical accuracy, but it might surprise you learn that Gintoki’s hair is totally possible for a Bakumatsu samurai. Generally, we have a stereotypical idea of Japanese hair as very straight, perhaps a little bit wavy at the most. But there are and have been for a long time Japanese people with wavy or even curly hair. Both Edo period hairstyles and modern haircuts tend to hide how wavy that hair can get, but the following photos show that Gintoki is not alone in knowing the pain of a natural perm.
Kuroda Kiyotaka. Satsuma commander, famous for convincing the Meiji government to spare the life of his opponent, Enomoto Takeaki.
Kishida Ginko, from Okayama, one of Japan’s earliest journalists, assisted with the Hepburn Japaenese-English dictionary in the 1850s and was busy in the 1860s on some of Japan’s first news publications.
Nishi Amane, from Tsuwano, was a Rangaku student who was sent along with Enomoto Takeaki and Hayashi Kenkai to the Netherlands to study in the 1860s.
Maebara Issei of Choshu, Kiheitai member in the 1860s. (Executed in 1877 as leader of the Hagi Rebellion.)
And let’s not forget
Sakamoto Ryoma of Tosa, incidentally the inspiration for Gintama’s other leading fluff-head.
P.S. If you’re wondering why I collect pictures of curly-haired samurai, I have very curly hair myself. As Gintoki says, it can be a pain.
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Reblogging from self. Who knew Gintama could be so educational?
Chonmages - Gintama Explains It All (Episode 151)
Barber: No, no. It was so it wouldn’t get too stuffy when they put their helmets on. In other words, it’s a symbol of how the samurai are always prepared for battle.Like the spirit of a samurai.
Gintoki: Spirit, huh…
Barber: But these days, they’ve given up the Mage hairstyle and the spirit. Now they want their hair all curly or dyed. Wouldn’t the Land of Samurai be shocked to know? It’s a disgrace. Isn’t that right? So what’ll it be today?
You never give up, Pops.You can tell that story for the rest of your life and I still won’t ask for a Mage. A straight perm.
Barber: You never give up, big guy.That won’t be enough to fix your hair. Your twisted personality is twisting your hair. Just go with a Mage.We have to fix you from the inside.
Gintoki: Cut it out already. A Mage is the spirit of a samurai? That’s just an excuse those balding oldies came up with.“This isn’t a receding hairline. It’s so I can wear the helmet.”
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Cutest Choshu Photo EVER!
I’m having some painful health issues lately, but this photograph has cheered me up. Taken 1871, Ikumatsu with Umetaro, the seven-year-old son of Takasugi Shinsaku. Ikumatsu’s husband, Kido Takayoshi aka Katsura Kogoro, had taken Umetaro into his household in Tokyo to be educated there.
This tiny picture is from the National Museum of History’s website. An enlarged but lower quality one, probably scanned from a book:
For more information about young Umetaro, check this post on LIvejournal.
We’ll have to find some cute picture of a Shinsengumi member’s kid to balance this out, eh?
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Beautiful photograph of Gintama! Saitou by @aikirai
Me: and speaking of Gintama Saitou, no one’s drawn a carrot afro on real-life Saitou’s photo yet. Why??
@aikirai: ask and ye shall receive
I was thinking of these legendary Gintama photoshops of Bakumatsu heroes when I requested this.
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- Even though you were going to be executed the next day, you still roared like that, did you not? Shinsuke, this country still—–
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Takasugi Founds the Kiheitai and gets Nagged by Katsura
Today’s post is inspired by August 10 being the fictional Takasugi Shinsuke’s birthday in Gintama. August 10 is not the real Takasugi’s birthday. In today’s post, I’ll point out some historical details Sorachi used in Gintama.
When we last left the Takasugi Shinsaku in the pages of Itou Hirobumi’s memoir, he was burning down the British embassy, plotting to kill enemies, and developing a drinking problem. Takasugi’s old schoolmate, Itou Hirobumi, continues the story. [pg. 396, the Far East]
Meanwhile the lord of the clan went to Kyoto, and in his absence the Choshu interests in Edo were left in the hands of Takasugi alone.
Which is a terrifying prospect. It wasn’t like he was supposed to stay there but
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1000 Followers Bakumatsu Popularity Poll Giveaway
Despite frequent stops, starts, a draft pile of about 76 posts, and a long reading list, this blog has reached 1000 followers. Which is amazing. I wanted to do something substantial to mark a 1000 followers, and since I can’t thank all of you in person, I’m doing a giveaway.
I’’m going to be giving away two ‘three-month premium Crunchyroll memberships’. With your Crunchyroll membership, you can enjoy Shinsengumi related media like Hakuouki’s first season, the movie When the Last Sword is Drawn and Gintama, ad-free. (I also recommend any Edo period/yokai fan check out Mushishi and Mononoke.)
BUT you need to follow my very idiosyncratic rules to enter. I want this giveaway to be for people actually at least a smidgeon interested in Bakumatsu history. Also, I think it’s high time for a Hakuouki History Bakumastu Popularity Arc.
So, here are the rules.
1. Enter by commenting on this post, answering the question “Who’s your favourite person of Bakumatsu Japan?” Must be a real human being who spent some time in Japan between 1853 and 1869. To win, you must be following me at the time of the draw.
2. Deadline for entering is Friday, May 27, 2016. 10 pm, Eastern Time. I’m picking two winners from the qualified comments, using a random number generator to pick winners.
3. I will contact the winners via tumblr, and at that point I’ll get your email address to send the Crunchyroll gift membership to. Obviously, you have to be in a part of the world that can use Crunchyroll to watch media. Or use a region unlocker, which I don’t officially recommend.
4. I’ll give the winners until Monday, May 30, 10 pm, Eastern Time to reply to me. At that point, if they haven’t got in touch, I’ll draw again.
Here’s the part that should be fun for everyone. I’ll be tallying up all the votes in the style of a Character Popularity write-in poll, so let’s see who The Most Popular Bakumatsu Figure is. Will Hijikata win? Sakamoto Ryoma? What about the ladies? Fans of Oryou-chan vote now. (Somewhere, the quiet Ernest Satow faction stirs, ready to sweep the contest.)
If you don’t want to enter the contest, but still want to vote for your fav, just mention that in your comment.
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I’m interviewed on this episode of the Gintama “Life Lessons” manga cast. It was a lot of fun. We talk about my late entrance to manga/anime fandom, Bakumatsu history, Gintama, and all sorts of random stuff. (My interview begins at 1:32.) Katsura Kogoro, Takasugi Shinsaku, and Sakamoto’s Oryou-chan are the most discussed.
I hope you enjoy hearing me mispronouncing Japanese names and laughing so hard I can’t finish my sentences properly.
Thank you, Colton, for having me on the show.
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Happy April Fool’s Day!
Pope Francis is trying to reach out to everyone, huh. Guess Sakamoto’s made it to the big leagues: Almost Sainthood.
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#I saw the plaque to Romeo on the walk up to the Mendenhall glacier waterfall view#and now I see the rest of the story#beautiful place btw
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Reblogging now the anime is on this arc. Since I’ve written the post, I’ve discovered that eventually the Shogunate tried to put the Shinsengumi under the Mimawarigumi in real life too, as in this arc. And the Shinsengumi balked. Another bit of history Sorachi stirred into the soup here.
Here’s the Mimawarigumi tag on my history blog for more stuff on those elites..
Shinsengumi Origins and Sasaki Tadasaburou
I first posted this on the YS Chapter 536 Thread. It’s a really simplified run-down of history related to the current Gintama flashback.
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Funnily enough, the Toba-Fushimi article on Wikipedia is really good. I was thinking of featuring some of the good Wikipedia articles there after having pointed out some of the bad.
So, yeah, Yamazaki was wounded during Toba-Fushimi and died of his wounds a few days afterwards, probably Feb 6 aboard the steamship Fujisan maru. but there aren’t any official records of exactly when he was wounded/died, just the memories of his fellows later.
do you know how yamazaki died in mission?
according to @cultoftakasugi, yamazaki susumu died of his wounds aboard ship after the battle of toba-fushimi. i’m… hesitant to try to look up any more detail than that, since all i really have to go by is wikipedia, and as you can see it’s not always a very trustworthy resource lmao. im really sorry i can’t elaborate any more on what happened to him!!
maybe try @hakuouki-history for info on the battle?
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so i was reading about okita souji's death and the anecdote about the black cat, and the source (shinsengumi-no-makoto) said that one of the reasons okita might have wanted to kill it was because black cats are supposed to be an omen of death for people with tb, but i can't seem to find a confirmation of that anywhere. in fact, it looks like black cats are seen as lucky in japan. sorry if this is a weird question and if you don't know the answer that's totally ok, but do you know which is true?
You’re correct! That bit on Shinsengumi-no-makoto is a mistranslation. Black cats were actually supposed to cure TB in Japanese folklore.
Here’s a post explaining the actual origin and meaning of the black cat story. Sadly the OP @tokio-fujita, who was a very helpful source for all things Shinsengumi and Hakuouki, has since died, so we’ve lost her insight.
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