Coming To A Closeout Bin Near You.

[wicked iemon]

http://www.amazon.com/Revenge-47-Ronin-1703-Raid/dp/1849084270/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1305598553&sr=1-8

Dr T has just had it with you lot ,All this capping on the noble Asano ,Not to mention slurring the most heroic act in Samurai History and Dr T has just had enough ,And he will set the record straight! once and for all !!!!.
"Feudal Drive BY INDEED !!!!!".

(Poor ol Dr T he is hoping to flog enough copies to cash in on Keanu and his 46 Hobbits upcoming 3D opus)
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[leakbrewergator]

I wasn't going to pre-order it, but then I read the description.

First sentence:

[Tornadoes28]

[kitsuno]

I'm looking forward to this book for one reason, and one reason only: To read Tatsunoshi's scathing review!


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[wicked iemon]

Well you all know by now that Dr T will be playing Tsunayoshi in the new 3D version of Keanu and his 46 Hobbit's ,
As an added bonus Dr T will wear a pendant containing the musket ball that killed Takeda Shingen .

Yes i do not care about his latest Osprey Offering all 50 pages of it .I want to see Tats rip his cord jacket to shreds ,maybe even snap his spectacles !.
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[Obenjo Kusanosuke]

I also heard that in his role, Dr T reads from the Book of the Dead and resurrects Henrieta, who proceeds to suck Dr T's soul...and he likes it! Next, the insatiable Henrieta resurrects Oishi Kuronosuke, her favorite, Fuwa, Horibe, and even pal Miyamoto Musashi in an attempt to smite Tatsunoshi, Dr Henry Smith and Beatrice Bodart-Bailey with a furious vengeance. Newcomer Andrew Rankin, with Thomas Conlan stand in the way of this demonic force in what is being called this summer's Clash of the Chushingura Titans.
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Heee heee! Shita iro! Shita iro! Here comes his lordship, Baka Tono!
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[Tatsunoshi]

[Tatsunoshi]

Well, I’m already gathering firewood to stack around Turnbull’s rustic hut in preparation for the roast. You’re all invited! But to be fair, I think there’s a good chance he might deliver something worthwhile. Turnbull’s demonstrated the last couple of years he’s willing to look at the newest scholarship and incorporate it into his books even when it’s at odds with what he’s written before (even if sometimes he picks the wrong newest scholarship to buy into, like he did with Kenneth Swope, resulting in the laughable ‘Samurai Invasion of Korea’ Osprey book). Japanese scholarship since about 1995 has brought the Ronin legend back to historical fact and excised the Edo period kabuki/puppet play BS, and it’s finally begun to filter into Western scholarship with Smith, Bodart-Bailey, Rankin, etc. Turnbull’s had to have seen it-I think it really just boils down to whether he wants to alienate his Osprey audience, most of whom have a pretty casual interest in Japanese history and want to buy into the whole Bushido thing. They weren’t very happy with him when he did his 360 in ‘Samurai Invasion of Korea’. Turnbull’s biggest problem is that while he can research and present the stuff uncovered by other authors (bordering on plagiarism at times) in a very readable and entertaining manner, he rarely takes a critical look at anything. You’d be hard pressed to see any real analysis of evidence or an original theory in any of his work.

I have to admit, though, the advertising copy for the book doesn’t fill me with much hope. It pretty much seems to go with the standard Edo period fiction. Besides the fact that I’m not sure you can call an ambush with one side doing all the killing a ‘swordfight’ (much like you can’t call Honno-ji a battle), Turnbull seems not to realize that most (probably all) of the Ronin used spears during the raid (as evidenced by their own accounts written afterwards while in captivity). How can it be a swordfight when everyone’s using spears? Not to mention that he’s ignoring small conflicts like Osaka Winter, Osaka Summer, the Shimabara Rebellion, the Satsuma conquest of Okinawa, the riots in northeast Japan after Sekigahara, civil unrest in Tosa province, etc etc etc, that happened in those hundred years prior to the Ronin’s raid-I’d say any of them were a tad ‘bigger’ than that. And ‘turning Japan on its head’? Nobody really gave a rat’s ass except that it gave the commoners a bunch of new entertaining plays to check out. As far as politics and the economy, it was business as usual.

Bottom line-if he sticks with the Edo period legend/Bushido crap, I’ll descend on him with all the wrath I can muster. There WILL be brimstone. There WILL be snake handling. There WILL be damnation! (because I'm the Loooooorrrrdddd of the Harvest, just like Dennis Hopper in TCM2). If he goes the extra mile, does his research, and produces something worthwhile, I’ll give him the praise it merits. If nothing else, it’ll have pretty pictures.

[Obenjo Kusanosuke]

[wicked iemon]

Samurai Behaving Badly.

Hidetsugu

Kai Harada

Tokugawa Tadanaga

Oh well that's 3 ,could add the Hosokawa Succession disputes .
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[kitsuno]

Hidetsugu will be in there, but so will Hideyoshi for his conduct in the Hidetsugu matter. Araki Murashige is another honor disaster that will be addressed. He decided to flee rather than surrender and committ seppuku, which resulted in the deaths of a ridiculous number of people at the end of Nobunaga's executioner's swords. And he didn't even flee to 'fight another day', he just ran away. In point of fact by any standards the most ardent modern sammyrai wannabe could set, his wife died a far more honorable and dignified death, even in the face of a cowardly husband. Good stuff!
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[ltdomer98]

[Obenjo Kusanosuke]

[kitsuno]

Well as far as the fanboys know, Bushido was around forever. Anyway, it isn't so much "Bushido didn't exist", I want to focus on the "Bad Boys of the ...." shoot, can't think of a snappy title, but the guys who were the total opposite of what bushido stood for. I don't want to do "Bushido is bull because..." I don't like that line of discussion. Our "edo expert" is going to be hanging out at the Smithsonian over the summer, so it will be the guy who hates the Edo period, the guy who thinks the Edo period is too modern, and the guy who doesn't care about it. But I'll see what I can dig up. The "Bushido Myth" conversation has a place of course, but I don't want that to be the heart of the podcast.
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[kitsuno]

[Obenjo Kusanosuke]

[ltdomer98]

[wicked iemon]

Hanzo Hattori The Second who was such a sloth and just uninterested in his duties his poor Iga clansmen had to storm a temple to try and get him the sack .

Also even before or around the same time as the Date Dispute we have the Kuroda and Maeda families both got into deep doo doo due to evil councilors.

Maybe that ill fated attempt to restore the Oda that never made it out the front door during the reign of our ol bud the bed wetting Shogun .
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[kitsuno]

I'm sure we already have plenty of stuff. Samurai tended to behave badly.
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[lordameth]

I'll see what I might happen to come across, but as my summer reading list consists primarily of books on Yoshiwara and Kabuki, don't hold your breath
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[wicked iemon]

Back to Dr T, I think he will stick to the reel version of events .

I just do not see Dr T as one to upset the apple cart ,Besides there is an upcoming film that both he and Osprey would like to latch on to.

Of course the good Doctor could find himself hosting a History Channel Doc on Bushido or something similar so he will tread the familiar path on this .
Beat me with a soggy noodle if i am wrong .

Funny i always thought the events that rocked Japan were Famine ,Floods ,Bad Harvests and the odd Earthquake ,Did not think the 47 could top those .
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[shin no sen]

I see you have altered your nom de plume to iemon after the Incident of the Capitals It now looks like 伊右衛門 Sly fox. Ha!! John
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[wicked iemon]

Yes originally i took the name from Iemon of Yotsuya fame ,But it became mistaken for Lemon which kinda suited the acidic comments towards certain films .

Anyway either way is fine .
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