Re: Digest Number 215

Dear momoiro-usagi:

Thank you very much for the time you took commenting the article. *bows gratefully*
Concerning the comment I made about Tekiya and Hijikata, was meant as a sort of joke (very poorly done on my side, I admit, but as I'm not a native speaker (I'm Argentine), sometimes I lack the grace and subtlety required for performing such feats).

Of course that the drama can't be taken as a reliable historical source. To be honest, at first the historical inaccuracies ticked me off quite a bit, but then I reconsidered, since it's not a documental, but a TV series, meant to entertain, in the same vein as many American productions for TV as well as Hollywood movies. So after accepting this basic fact, I sat comfortably to enjoy Shinsengumi! for what it was worth.

But your advice is certainly very accurate, and appreciated. Thanks for your concern.

Firuze


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--- In SHQ@yahoogroups.com, Firuze Khanume
wrote:

> Dear momoiro-usagi:
>
> Thank you very much for the time you took commenting the article.

*bows gratefully*

> Concerning the comment I made about Tekiya and Hijikata, was

meant as a sort of joke (very poorly done on my side, I admit, but
as I'm not a native speaker (I'm Argentine), sometimes I lack the
grace and subtlety required for performing such feats).

>
> Of course that the drama can't be taken as a reliable historical

source. To be honest, at first the historical inaccuracies ticked me
off quite a bit, but then I reconsidered, since it's not a
documental, but a TV series, meant to entertain, in the same vein as
many American productions for TV as well as Hollywood movies. So
after accepting this basic fact, I sat comfortably to enjoy
Shinsengumi! for what it was worth.

>
> But your advice is certainly very accurate, and appreciated.

Thanks for your concern.

>
> Firuze

Was that a joke? It understood.
Since the article was very serious, I have not noticed it^^;;;
Talking in the language which is not a native language suffers
troubles mutually.
And I am writing this text using translation software.
I am worried that an impolite thing may be written to you.

Taiga drama is often introducing in others the small episode which
is not made to appear.
However, it also has many episode which is not facts.
Taiga drama is not a thing for studying a historical fact.
It is a thing for merely enjoying oneself as a drama.
You know the right way of enjoying oneself of Taiga drama^^
There are people who believe that the episode in Manga, a novel, or
a drama is a fact among Shinsengumi fans.
The fans of a certain Shinsengumi manga are introducing information
on a network only in the knowledge from the work.
They are people who are young mostly and have not read other
Shinsengumi works.
(I cannot understand why they become the feeling which got to know
Shinsengumi only in the knowledge of that work.)
I am not going to deny fictions' worth.
They become a wonderful entrance to a historical fact.
Moreover, people of a time far from us are made a nearer existence.
However, it is dangerous to believe it.


Well, I feel that only good portions were written too much about
Yakuza.
Many Yakuzas which were popular allies actually existed.
However, probably, many Yakuzas which were hard on the weak with
regards to the man of power also existed.
And probably Yakuza which did not perform a bad thing at all does
not exist.
The same may be said of the situation after Meiji Era.
About the time after Meiji Era, there was certainly a situation
where you wrote.
Yakuzas with political ideas was related to the politician or the
army.
However, Yakuzas which valued the territory like ancient times also
existed.
Although I wanted to write in detail about this, for performing it,
I am too ignorant.
Although I think that the contents which Firuze-san wrote are the
people rather called "Uyoku" (the right wing), I cannot say it with
a corroboration.
I have neither existence of Uyoku nor the knowledge about thought.
They have a close relation to Yakuza.
They instigated the politician and the army and often caused
trouble.

(Although I am a Japanese, I am very ignorant about Japan and sense
that it is shameful. I come to SHQ and am very conscious of it.
After coming to SHQ, I came to think of Japan seriously. In that, I
am thankful to everybody of SHQ.)

Please introduce, if there are some interesting articles ^^

momoiro-usagi