http://www.shinsengumidb.com/
if you click on FULL SEARCH and go to Commercial Realeses and type in
"Okita" you will find hundreds of texts/media
it seems that if the 2
webmasters aren't updating their insane collection of doujinshi at
http://www.hajimenokizu.com they are extremely diligent in providing
the most comprehensive Shinsengumi database in internet history
(^_^)
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http://www.shinsengumihq.com/ShinsengumiBakumatsuTimeline.htm
see July 1869 Western date and brief account of battle at Goryokaku
http://www.shinsengumihq.com/misc_facts.htm
see Hakodate's Goryokaku
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So I wanted to rent Shura No Toki # 6
http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc_reviews/4376.php
and as always it wasn't available so I had to get...
IZO mini review posted at
http://www.shinsengumihq.com/film.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377079/
IZO directed by Takashi Miike. Two Shinsengumi, one is clearly Okita
Souji and another Kondou Isami? make cameo appearances in this
extremely episodic art film featuring multiple dimensions, vengeful
ghosts, images of modern wars, strong sexuality, hell and time travel
which examines the nature of VIOLENCE and the irrationality of seeking
justice (you shall be treated with screams of TENCHU often too). The
two Shinsengumi and the main character have a little scuffle on a
modern highway. Our boys, completely oblivious that their magical
appearance caused a truck to swerve off the road, then deliver some
interesting philosophical lines before giving the "hero" some trouble.
The Shinsengumi fight scene happens to be the best choreographed.
Interestingly, another scene in the film takes Izo back to the
Bakumatsu where he fights hordes of black clad special ops military
men from modern times, and in another scene Edo era cops, doshin and
the hero fight in a modern setting. This film is not for everyone
especially if the only calm scene involves elementary school kids
giving thought provoking definitions on nation and democracy shortly
before the hero massacres the school staff. Many of the "aristocrats"
the target of Izo, purposefully resemble notorious figures in Japanese
history. The film also stars NHK Shinsengumi's Harada Sanosuke,
Yamamoto Taro as a cleaver wielding, real estate selling vampire.
*fortunately after seeing this film I erased the image of gallons of
blood from my brain with the witty masterpiece POM POKO (The Racoon
WArs) from STudio Ghibli
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[Tokio fans keep reading]
http://www.shinsengumihq.com/TakagiTokioinfo.htm
some new stuff
do an edit "find" in your interent browser for "diamond" to see the
school song presented to the school by the Meiji Empress
do and edit "find" in your internet browser for "provisional" to
read a detailed account of Nara Women's Normal School dorm---Nara was
the sister school of Tokyo Women's Normal school, thus the schedule of
both school would be similar if not exactly the same
BRAND NEW SECTION "Tokyo Women's Normal School in the world of fiction"
BRAND NEW SECTION "Forbidden Books"
Tokyo Women's Normal School and ROKUMEIKAN see the chronology year
1886 and look for the novelist ***Miyake Kaho and note the interaction
between males and females which was allowed before the school was
asked to stop. Also note the females and navy officers (think Nishino
Midori and Fujita Tsutomu/o)
See the section "[Other Aizu Women]" and see the 2 links for
Yamakawa Futaba
[footnote]
the school took quiet a beating in the newspapers and prior to finding
all this new info I had no idea that the word "tensai" (which can mean
anything from bright girl, genius girl, Girl professor) was a
*sarcastic term applied not to schoolgirls in GENERAL but specifically
to the students at Tokyo Women's Normal School
a similar situation where school's appear in a negative light can be
found in Natsue Soseki's BOTCHAN
male and female interaction at the school a good 10 years before
Fukuzawa Yukichi printed his book on Greater Learning for Women can
come from 2 people:
Takamine Hideo, the director who controlled both Normal Schools for
men and women and who participated in similar activities at Oswego
Normal school in N.Y. State---the American host family he lived with
was the only household which allowed men and women to dance together
(not to mention allow male and female boarders under one roof).
Takamine Sen(ko) his wife who was friends with Rokumeikan's leader,
Yamakawa/Oyama Sutematsu and Tsuda Ume(ko)