Samurai drama The Edo Detective — Constables, Informants, and the Torimono-chō Tradition
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThe jidaigeki is overwhelmingly a genre of swords: of problems solved through superior swordsma...
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Samurai drama Death in Jidaigeki — The Aesthetics of Seppuku and the Duel
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledJidaigeki is, at its core, a genre about death. People are killed in every episode of every ser...
Samurai drama The Lone Wolf and Cub Revolution — The Birth of the Anti-Hero in Japanese Period Drama
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledIn 1970, a manga series began in the monthly magazine Manga Action that would change the period...
Samurai drama Language in Jidaigeki — Edo Dialect, Kamigata Speech, and the Satsuma Drawl
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledWhen a jidaigeki character speaks, they are not speaking historical Japanese. They cannot be: n...
Samurai drama The Eternal Appeal of the Shinsengumi — Sympathy for the Defeated
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledNo organization in Japanese history has generated more fictional adaptations per year of actual...