¡Gogai! Bakumatsu Kawaraban
¡Dobashi Akihiro / [Cho]
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[Machine Translation] Edo, 1853. Curious Ginji and painter Utagawa Yoshinori, who had gained popularity by selling lowbrow waraban, a book that followed yokai legends and gossip stories, went to see the black ships that came to Uraga, and their lives changed when they boarded the ship in a fit of excitement. He studied under Sakuma Shozan, who was reputed to be the most knowledgeable man in Edo, and met various heroes of the end of the Edo period, including Katsu Rintaro, Sakamoto Ryoma, Yoshida Shoin, and Saigo Kichinosuke. As he reported great earthquakes, fires, and deadly plagues in his Kawaraban, Ginji awoke to his mission as a reporter and stood up for the weak masses. This is a painful historical novel about a Kawaraban shopkeeper who pursues the truth (and sometimes lies) amidst the turmoil at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate!
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