Sayonara ga Chikai no de
For Our Farewell Is Near

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What is the first thing you think about, when you think of Japan?
Samurai !!

In this stack I’ve listed all the samurai manga that I’ve read so far. Some are philosophical, some are childish, some are dark and some are pure action.

It’s a mixed bag. But they all revolve around samurai.

Separated out from the general Bakumatsu stack because there are too many.

Bakumatsu represented the last years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended. Between 1853 and 1867 Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku (lit. closed country) and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government. The major ideological-political divide was between the pro-imperial nationalists called Ishin Shishi and the pro-shogunate forces, which included the elite Shinsengumi swordsmen.

The Bakumatsu Period ended with the The Boshin War which was a civil war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between pro-Tokugawa shogunate forces (which included the Shinsengumi) and pro-emperor forces.

Important historical figures of the era:

Kondou Isami, Hijikata Toshizou, Okita Souji, Saitou Hajime, Yamazaki Susumu.