#Shozan garden

[chitaka45]

しょうざんリゾート京都　🌱花菖蒲🌱

shozan rezort kyoto 🌱iris🌱

[japan-minka]

Today's Ikebana - Shades of Pink

Color matching the hydrangeas in our garden with the first of this year's calla lilies. Paired with one of my kokeshi by the late Shido Shozan.

[shinsengumi-archives]

Anecdotes about Hijikata Toshizo

When he was a child, he used to practice sumo wrestling naked on a pillar in his house after getting out of the bath. The pillar still remains today.

When his nephew (Tamekichi, Sato Hikogoro's third son) fell down in the garden and cut his forehead, he immediately rushed to the scene. He laughed and said, "The boy has a wound on his face now. Congratulations! Congratulations!"

The only extant record of Toshizo in the Tennen Rishinryu dojo is the Chugokui Mokuroku. It seems that he was unable to let go of the habits of the various styles he had learned while peddling. However, it’s said that he was very strong in actual combat. (During a swordfight, he would hit his opponent with the sand under his feet and cut him down while he flinched, or strangle him by throwing his haori at him.)

He is said to have devised strict rules, such as "jinchu-hojo" and "kachu-hojo," and to have showered his merciless blade on traitors and outcasts, earning him the nickname "Demon Vice-Commander", and is usually described as a ruthless man. However, according to Nakajima Noboru, a Shinsengumi member who even followed him to Hakodate, at the time of the Hakodate War, he was "mild-mannered and adored like a mother. It is said that he often took young soldiers out to eat and drink and gave them advice.

He was a kimono maker, so he was better than most women at cutting fabric with scissors.

He loved takuan (pickled turnips), and once received a whole barrel of it as a souvenir from a relative's house.

He had a face that was popular among women. The sister of a Byakkotai member wrote in her diary of the day she accompanied her brother to see Toshizo, "He was a nice, fair-skinned man."

He was also described by men of the same sex as a handsome man.

And a little more about the secret story of the formation of the Shinsengumi...

The man behind the formation of the Shinsengumi was Hijikata Toshizo's brother-in-law, Sato Hikogoro (husband of his sister Nobu).

He was under the direct control of Egawa Eiryu (江川英龍), a shogunate vassal, and it seems that Egawa approached him with the idea of a farmer's army, which he passed on to Toshizo.

The Shinsengumi, a meritocratic organization controlled by Toshizo that did not depend on status, seems to have been an implementation of Eiryu's modern concept of a farmer's army.

Interestingly, Eiryu was also the teacher of Sakuma Shozan, and through Shozan, his student Yoshida Shoin may have drafted the original idea of the grassroots soldiers, "Kiheitai".

The Shinsengumi and the Kiheitai may have shared the same roots 😲

Kondo Isami and Hijikata Toshizo met through the dojo that Hikogoro built in his house. He was also a financial supporter of the Shinsengumi.

Without Sato Hikogoro, the Shinsengumi might not have existed.

References

歴史群像シリーズ 土方歳三

新 歴史群像シリーズ 土方歳三

聞き書き新選組, by Sato Satoshi (descendant of Sato Hikogoro), published by Shinmono Oraisha, Inc.

子孫が語る土方歳三, by Hijikata Megumi (descendant of Kiroku, Hijikata Toshizo's elder brother), published by Shinbunjo-Oraisha.

Kondo Isami, Hijikata Toshizo, Sato Hikogoro, Egawa Eiryu in Wikipedia

Other information on fan sites, and many books by 新紀元社 and 新人物往来社.

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The Kitayama Daisugi and Cedar garden scenery at the Shozan Resort in Kita Ward, Kyoto City.

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[chitaka45]

京都　しょうざんリゾート　菖蒲＆鯉

　SHOZAN RESORT KYOTO

[chitaka45]

京都　しょうざんリゾート　🍁紅葉2022🍁

SHOZAN RESORT KYOTO 🍁autumn leaves🍁

[chitaka45]

しょうざんリゾート庭園 紅葉🍁

Shozan resort Japanese garden 🍁

[kyotodreamtrips]

The Kitayama Daisugi and Cedar garden scenery at the Shozan Resort in Kita Ward, Kyoto City.

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An ochaya and Japanese Irises in the Kitayama Daisugi and Cedar garden at the Shozan Resort in Kita Ward, Kyoto City.

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Kitayama Daisugi in the Shozan Resort Garden.

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A small pond and Japanese Irises in the Kitayama Daisugi and Cedar garden at the Shozan Resort in Kita Ward, Kyoto City.

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An ochaya and Japanese Irises in the Kitayama Daisugi and Cedar garden at the Shozan Resort in Kita Ward, Kyoto City.

[kyotodreamtrips]

An ochaya and Japanese Irises in the Kitayama Daisugi and Cedar garden at the Shozan Resort in Kita Ward, Kyoto City.

[kyotodreamtrips]

An ochaya and Japanese Irises in the Kitayama Daisugi and Cedar garden at the Shozan Resort in Kita Ward, Kyoto City.

[kyotodreamtrips]

A small stream and Japanese Irises in the Kitayama Daisugi and Cedar garden at the Shozan Resort in Kita Ward, Kyoto City.