#soga monogatari

[nishiki-e]

Tora Gozen Losing Her Hat in a Breeze, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1845

[sergeant-macho-nacho]

[yamayuandadu]

Is Hatakeyama Shigetada as handsome and valiant as everyone says? Guy nearly captured Shizuka Gongen.

Pretty sure you mean Tomoe and not Shizuka? It’s a fairly popular motif in ukiyo-e.

Shigetada does sort of interact with Shizuka in the Gikeiki (he plays the flute when she performs in front of Yoritomo), but he has no part in her capture. In most variants I am aware of, that's the role of Kajiwara no Kagetoki, who is pretty consistently portrayed negatively (we’re talking Grima Wormtongue level of subtlety here), in contrast with Shigetada.

In any case, in fiction Shigetada is pretty consistently described as a respectable, level-headed figure. He is portrayed as loyal to Yoritomo, but simultaneously as sympathetic to Yoshitsune (in the Gikeiki he opposes Yoritomo’s idea to get rid of him at Koshigoe, berates him for valuing Kagetoki more than own brother, and praises the loyalty of some of Yoshitsune’s retainers like Tadanobu; at the same time, in Genpei Jōsuiki he restraints Yoshitsune when he wants to fight Kagetoki after being insulted by him), Shizuka (in the nara ehon Shizuka, see here, p. 309) or the Soga brothers (in Soga Monogatari).

As far as later literature goes, it’s worth noting the famous Edo period playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon in Sasaki Ōkagami made Shigetada a mouthpiece for his quite harsh criticism of one of the more popular superstitions at the time: “the idea that women born in the year of the Fire Horse are a curse upon their husbands is all a bunch of hogwash” (it’s based on the sexagenary cycle; for more context, see Taming the Fire Horse. The Free Distribution of Anti-superstition Pamphlets in Early Modern Japan by Niels van Steenpaal). I feel like his portrayal in Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki is more ambivalent, though.

While fiction obviously exaggerates historical events, it is true that Shigetada was a particularly loyal follower of Yoritomo and was seemingly genuinely regarded as upstanding. However, he didn’t fare particularly well after his lord’s death:  through machinations of the Hōjō clan he was falsely accused of plotting a rebellion, and died alongside many other members of his family as a result. This was a part of their bigger strategy of isolating political rivals and eliminating them, which eventually led to their monopolization of the influential regent position.

[legend-of-zelda-voices]

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Mari Maruta

First Role in LoZ: Jim & the Bombers Secret Society of Justice (MM), Cremia (MM)

Other LoZ Roles: (None)

Alternate LU Voice for: Malon*

Some characters with the same voice:

Wife (Marvelous Melmo), Setsuka Soga (Cheeky Angel), Nemurin (Kiki to Lala), Dappu (Gekisou Sentai Carranger), Alpha 6 (Power Rangers), Kouji Hoshiyama (Matchless Raijin-Oh), Bei (Tama and Friends), Maheria Meril and Sicily (Mobile Suit Victory Gundam), Mamoru Akagi (Detective Conan), Dovlin and U Tahime (Sailor Moon S), Jarajarako and Otedamako (Sailor Moon SuperS)

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In the game:

Majora's Mask

*Malon isn't technically Cremia, but...they look the same, so... alternative voice for LU Malon

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Speaking

Wife from Marvelous Melmo

She first appears at 0:08 and then throughout the rest of the video.

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Setsuka Soga from Cheeky Angel

She speaks throughout most of this, but a few times are 0:00, 0:20, 0:52, 1:33, 1:59, and 2:00.

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Nemurin from Kiki to Lala

Nemurin appears at 1:27

Nemurin is the animal on the broomstick with the orange hat.

Times are 1:27, 1:39, 1:46, 2:16, 2:24, 2:36, 3:11, 3:25, 3:39, 4:03, 6:41, 8:27, 10:37, 10:59, and 13:30.

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Voice Samples from Mari Maruta

Name Introduction at 0:00, Dialogue 1 at 0:02, Dialogue 2 at 0:16, Narration at 0:30, and English Narration at 1:00.

In the English Narration part, she says "You must remember this / A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh / The fundamental things apply / As time goes by" These are actually lyrics from a song, though she's not singing it...

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Singing

"Otome no PORISHI" from Animelody Night Album, from Sailor Moon

Translated title: "Maiden's Policy"

Two people are singing. I think she's the one who starts singing a bit later and makes sounds at 0:37 and vocalizes at 1:13.

You can listen to the rest of the album here.

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"Manatsu no Emotion" from Troubadour Album

Translated title: "Midsummer Emotion"

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"Various Songs" from ◎にじゅうまる Album

Includes samples of songs, including "個人授業", "Fly Me to the Moon" and "◎にじゅうまる"

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"Yume Oibitotachi e -Daiyuusha Monogatari no Theme-" from Matchless Raijin-Oh

Translated title: "To Dream Chasers-Theme of the Great Hero Story-"

I think the character Kouji Hashiyama, a boy, is supposed to be singing this.

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"Uchu no Tomodachi" from Matchless Raijin-Oh

Translated title: "Cosmic Friends"

I think the character Kouji Hashiyama, a boy, is supposed to be singing this.

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"Cat Day Concert" from YouTube channel

She talks and sings three songs throughout the video.

The songs are "Memory" (2:20), "Nijumaru" (7:50), and "David" (16:00).

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[lalilula]

I was reading parts about Soga, and apparently Goro has Anija-sense too? Like he could sense when Juror's in trouble.

[mihotose]

oodenta ought to have the bead for filial piety no?

[harvard-art-museums-calligraphy]

Story of [the] Soga Brothers (Soga Monogatari), 9th of 12 Volumes, 17th-18th century, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia Size: H. 23.7 x W. 18 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/16 in.) Medium: Twelve manuscript books; thread-bound, ink on paper with covers, gold designs on blue paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/92960

[itsmarjudgelove]

'Race at the Uji River' - the main detail of a ca. 1760s byobu screen - by Soga Shohaku (曾我蕭白, 1730 – 1781), a Japanese painter of the Edo period. From the Feinberg Collection at the MET in New York.

The picture relates to a famous historic event - the first battle of Uji (1180), significant for having began the Genpei War (源平合戦, Genpei kassen, Genpei gassen), 1180–1185, a national civil war between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the late-Heian period of Japan.

In early 1180, Prince Mochihito, the Minamoto Clan's favoured claimant to the Imperial Throne, was chased by Taira forces to the Mii-dera, a temple just outside Kyoto. Due to the interference of a Mii-dera monk with Taira sympathies, the Minamoto army arrived too late to help defend the temple.

Minamoto no Yorimasa and Prince Mochihito, along with a force of about fifteen hundred men including the warrior monks of Mii-dera and the Watanabe clan, fled south towards Nara. They crossed the Uji River, just outside the Byōdō-in, and tore up the planks of the bridge behind them to prevent the Taira from following.

Three warrior monks in particular are named in the "Heike Monogatari": Gochi-in no Tajima, Tsutsui Jōmyō Meishū, and Ichirai Hōshi. These three, along with the other monks of Mii-dera, fought with bow and arrow, a variety of swords, daggers and naginata.

As for the Taira troops, they were led by Ashikaga Tadatsuna, one of the few warriors of direct Minamoto descent who stayed loyal to his oath to the Taira family up until he and his father were murdered by one of their retainers, Kiryū Rokurō.

According to Azuma Kagami, the 18-year-old Tadatsuna is supposedly remembered as having had the strength of one hundred men, a voice that echoed over 10 li (5 km), and teeth of 1 sun (3.03 cm) long. Further stating that "there will be no warrior in future ages like this Tadatsuna"!

Led by their young general, the Taira force soon began to ford the river and caught up with the Minamoto. Tadatsuna was the first warrior on the frontline and following a custom of the period is said to have proclaimed his name and lineage before charging his enemies. Yorimasa tried to help the Imperial Prince get away, but was struck with an arrow in the right elbow. While his sons, Nakatsuna and Kanetsuna were fighting to fend off their enemies, Yorimasa committed seppuku. Meanwhile Prince Mochihito was captured and killed shortly after the battle by the Taira clan.

[aic-asian]

Hojo Tokimune and Soga no Juro Sukenari celebrate Goro's coming of age, from the series "Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)", Utagawa Hiroshige, 1838, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

Frederick W. Gookin Collection Size: 36.7 x 24.8 cm (14 7/16 x 9 3/4 in.) Medium: Color woodblock print; oban

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/34443/

[soulsbetrayed]

A reminder: Isami is a well read scholar in life and as a Servant! He might act like a passionate loudmouth but he’s more than just his looks.  He has read through the stories of the 47 Ronin of the Ako revenge incident and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. He also has read the Soga Monogatari at one point in his stay at Chaldea.

You’d most likely find him reading when he’s not up and about

[sergeant-macho-nacho]

You know the argument for gun control is bull by the fact that they haven't started expanding public transportation. Cars are dangerous, expensive to regulate, bad for the environment, make it easier for criminals to do crimes, ect.

So if we can get rid of guns then pay the police more to protect us then why can't we get rid of cars and have public transportation?

I think the same reason during the great depression they stopped Corn farmers from making automobile fuel and someone who makes $100 a year still has to pay income tax.

[artemis-maia]

I watched the first episode of the new Taiga Kamakura dono no 13 nin.

I love games (Kuon for example) and mangas set in the Heian/Kamakura era thus I also love when a Taiga is set in the Heian/Kamakura era, it‘s so rarely done (many prefer to tackle Sengoku and Bakumatsu since the viewers are more used to the characters, Heian/Kamakura is also way more complicated thus this might also be a reason).

I have also been to Kamakura once when I was 17 thus it‘s nice memories.

So far the Heian/Kamakura Taiga I have seen were Yoshitsune, Taira no Kiyomori (I also own the condensed DVD) and parts of Kusa Moeru.

Despite no liking Sanadamaru by Koki Mitani (characters and plotlines I considered important were neglected or downplayed, unimportant characters and stuff got way too much screentime, also Sanada Taiheiki is way better) I am giving Kamakura dono a chance.

I really liked the opening song.

The Hojo clan is a fascinating theme and I think that the era after Yoritomo dies is so interesting since it‘s pure chaos. Puppet youngster shoguns, assassinations, plotting courtiers, rebellions non stop. Many of the people involved in this stuff (Hatakeyama Shigetada, Wada Yoshimori, Minamoto no Yoriie, Miura Yoshimura) have already been casted thus we will likely see these events in some extent.

I also think that the idea of a ruthless family is cool (the last ruthless characters were in Fuurin Kazan). Most of the Taiga characters are too nice and considerate of others.

I could even understand if the Hojo are portrayed as plotting since if they don‘t it might be their clan that will be toast since they era they lived and ruled in was brutal.

Since I know too much about the era I know the ages of the characters and they are super off this time in the beginning for basically everyone.

The Taiga starts in 1175. The real Hojo Yoshitoki was born in 1163 thus only 12 years old at the time. Yoritomo was in his late 20s, Yoshitoki’s aunt Yae who was Yoritomo‘s first affair/wife and mother of Sentsurumaru was in her 20s, Yoshitoki’s sister Masako in her late teens, Hatakeyama Shigetada was 11 etc.

I understand though why they want to depict the Ito clan since Yoshitoki‘s mother was an Ito and the sister of Yae (both Yoshitoki‘s mother and Yae were daughters of Ito Sukechika). The Ito family will later play a role in the story of the Soga brothers again.

Several female key characters like Hime no Mae (very interesting since she was an employee of Yoritomo and a Hiki clan member), Iga no Kata (ruthless character) and Yoshitsune’s Shizuka Gozen still haven‘t been announced yet I am curious about their casting.

One thing I am really happy for is that Imai Kanehira will appear in Kamakura dono. He is my favorite character in the Heike Monogatari thus I always love when he appears in Heian/Kamakura era media and his relationship with Yoshinaka is the most touching. I hope his fierceness and his relationship with Yoshinaka gets enough screentime and I hope that the battle of Awazu is well done.

The costumes so far don‘t impress me since I have noticed many recycled costumes from earlier productions again like in Sanadamaru.

[crazyasianlove]

Musical Touken Ranbu - Higekiri Hizamaru Souki Shutsujin (SOGA) 2019 (Sub. Esp.)

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La historia narra uno de los tres grandes cuentos de venganza de Japón, Soga Monogatari. Representado como una versión moderna de kabuki, se cuenta la historia de dos hermanos nobles cuyo padre es asesinado y se reúnen, a pesar de que se llevaron al hermano pequeño para ser criado en un monasterio, para vengarse. CAST Miura Hiroki como Higekiri Takano Akira como Hizamaru Marukawa Takayuki Nishioka Hironobu Murakami Masaki Sasahara Eisaku Kawano Kenta Maehara Masaki Takeuchi Shuumei Kanou Yukikazu

[sohmariku]

Hi Riku, I watched the 2nd Souki Shitsujin this year and I'd like to ask if you know which part in history does the main story take place? I tried to search but japanese history is very complicated so I'm not sure which pair of brothers to read up on. Thank you!

Hey Anon,

the title of the tale told in the main performance is “Soga Monogatari”.

It tells the story of Soga Jūrō and Soga Gorō. When they were younger they were known as Ichimanmaru and Hakoomaru.

While the story probably finds its roots in historical fact, what remains today is probably a romanticed version of the events.

[harvard-art-museums-prints]

from the series Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue), Utagawa Hiroshige, 20th century, Harvard Art Museums: Prints

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel Size: Paper: H. 35.7 cm x W. 24.3 cm (14 1/16 x 9 9/16 in.) Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/147063

[mihotose]

the genji monogatari.... and the soga monogatari.....