Samurai drama Weather and Season in Jidaigeki — Nature as Dramaturgy
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledRain in jidaigeki is not weather. It is argument. The specific rain that falls on the final con...
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Samurai drama The Merchant in the Samurai’s World — Commerce, Class and Contempt
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThe most structurally revealing villain in jidaigeki is not the corrupt magistrate or the treac...
Samurai drama Jidaigeki and Buddhism — Temple, Monk and the Moral Landscape
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThe Buddhist temple in jidaigeki occupies a specific narrative position that any attentive view...
Samurai drama Zatōichi — The Blind Swordsman and the Politics of the Body
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThere is a specific moment that recurs across the Zatōichi film series — twenty-six films produ...
Samurai drama The Rōnin as Cultural Symbol — Masterlessness and Its Freedoms
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThe word rōnin (浪人) is built from two characters: wave and person. A wave-person. Someone adrif...