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...
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Samurai drama Sengoku Period Drama — Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Ieyasu, and the Eternal Triangle
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThere is a Japanese riddle — dating from the Edo period and still reproduced in schoolbooks, co...
Samurai drama Costume in Jidaigeki — What Clothes Reveal About Status and Psychology
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledWhen a protagonist appears on screen for the first time in a jidaigeki, a specific amount of in...
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...
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...