#shoin yoshida

[vyragosa]

[yoshidashoin]

Wooden statue of Yoshida Shōin (1830-1859), created by Hikita Sesshū, later donated to Kyoto University in 1902.

"吉田松陰木像" (Kyoto University Library)

[fuckyeahbakumatsu]

[talesofedo]

Sugi Toshisaburo, based on this photo.

Toshisaburo is the younger brother of Sugi Toranosuke (Yoshida Shoin) from Choshu. There's a 15 year difference between the brothers, but of the 7 siblings in their family, Toshisaburo is said to resemble Shoin the most.

[soulsbetrayed]

homeport asked:

🤧 Shoin-sensei taking care of his student uwu

Send 🤒 for your muse to take care of my sick muse. Send 🤧 for the reverse!

Yoshida sighs as he looks at Shinsaku. “Hey, how are you holding up?” he asked as he prepared medicine for his ailing student.  He knew there was very little he could do for him but he hoped that the small things he could do would bring him comfort.

@homeport

[halipula-aika]

Since there was a TMA poll going on already,

I'm not including Oscar Wilde or Howard Carter because they're too plot relevant and I'm not including Karl Marx because he is only namedropped. Yeah these are canonically NPCs in the world of rqg. Please reblog for a bigger sample size.

[loverboybrightsideghost]

rqg is great. oscar wilde died twice and got better both times and is in a qpr with a dwarf who is his own god. marie curie is a lesbian and engaged to the elf equivalent of mother gothel. yoshida shoin is a brain in a ball.

[incorrect-rqg]

Wilde is not on here because. Because. Because I said so.

[not-having-an-eldritch-blast]

I know Jonny wrote this episode but it's kind of giving Yoshida Shoin (RQG)

[just-an-enby-lemon]

This is the timeline of all RQG historical NPCs:

- Cicero* (106Bc - 43Bc)

- Geoffrey Chaucer* (??? - 1400)

- Isaac Newton* (1643-1727)

- Augusta Leight (1783-1851)

- Lord Byron (1788-1824)

- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

- Mary Shelley*** (1797-1851)

- Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

- Yoshida Shoin (1830 - 1859)

- Thomas Edson (1847 - 1931)

- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

- Sigmund Freud** (1856-1939)

- Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943)

- Marie Curie (1867-1934)

- Howard Carter (1874 - 1939)

- Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

- Amélia Earhart (1897-? )

* while older Cícero, Chauncy and Newton are adressed as being from the past and so their presence is explained by the narrative

** Freud only appeared in one episode and isn't even listed at the wiki.

*** Shelley was only mentioned in passing by Alex as a fun little curiosity.

Now my point with it is that is actually insane that RQG Earhart and RQG Einstein are implied to be the oldest NPCs (specially on Einsteins case). From Leigh (the oldest of the non-actually cannonically from a diferent time) to Einstein (the one who died more recently) there were 172 years!! (Also really funny that the Shelley joke also implies she is younger than Wilde).

Now this means nothing but I find it very fun.

[iwannarunawayandbeapirate]

did anyone else notice the similarities to rqg in the latest tmagp episode? because in rqg you've got yoshida shoin, who has severed the connection between his brain hemispheres and is now basically two different "people" (original him + the hivemind), and now in protocol there's all this stuff about the hemispherical bridge and that it's the center of the self and idek what i'm trying to say other than that alexander j newall is apparently a big fan of weird brain science

[yoshidashoin]

Yoshida Shōin's tantō

(Huffington Post)

In 2017, it was reported that Yoshida Shōin's tantō had been verified as authentic by the Maebashi Municipal Government after it was found in the United States in 2015.

(Sankei), (Mainichi)

In 1876 or 1877, it was given to a businessman, Ryoichiro Arai, by Yoshida's sister, Hisa, in hopes that it would be taken to the US. Hisa was the wife of the first governor of Gunma prefecture, and met Ryoichi through her husband. The tantō was passed down through the businessman's descendants, and was eventually rediscovered in California and brought to Japan for analysis in 2015.

(s)

The tantō is 42cm long, with the blade being 31cm long. In the Sankei article, there is a section mentioning one of the descendants of Ryoichiro Arai recalling that his grandfather and father told him that the blade was originally a spear, and that it had possibly been given to Yoshida by Miyabe Teizō.

(Huffington Post)

According to an account reported by the Mainichi:

Hisa had said the dagger contained her brother's soul, and that his soul would only be able to rest if the dagger were taken across the Pacific Ocean to America -- which had been her brother's dream.

[backflipstowardstheroot]

due to tumblr only having two options for poll length this will go until after the new event drops so uh, well you know

[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.

[vampyreblogger]

RQG SEXYPERSON COMPETITION MASTERPOST

Each round will last a week.

ROUND ONE

POLL A:

ada lovelace VS albert einstein VS amelia earheart VS amelie rose VS apophis VS ashen VS atsuanuub VS augusta leigh VS aziza hawaa al-tahan VS azu

WINNER: azu

POLL B:

barret racket VS bertus VS sir bertrand "bertie" macguffingham VS bi ming gusset VS bolla smok VS brock VS bronc VS celquinthion sidebottom VS charles babbagge VS chinua

WINNER: celquinthion sidebottom

POLL C:

cicero VS draal VS driak VS edward keystone VS eldarion VS elijah wormwood VS emeka VS eren fairhands VS eva van djik VS feryn smith

WINNER: edward keystone

POLL D:

figgis VS francois henri VS franz kafka VS friedrich (airship) VS friedrich (cult of apollo) VS gideon marsten-langdon VS gragg coulson VS grizzop drik acht amsterdam VS guivres VS hamid saleh haroun al-tahan

WINNER: grizzop drik acht amsterdam

POLL E:

harrison campbell VS hawaa layla halima VS hirald smith VS howard carter VS isaac newton VS jacques piaget VS james barnes VS jasper VS jean-luc bolieau VS jeremy

WINNER: james barnes

POLL F:

khantu VS kiko VS kondha VS la gourmande VS lady starling VS liliana beekos VS little VS maximus VS lord byron VS marie curie VS meerk

WINNER: kiko

POLL G:

mr ceiling VS natun VS nikola tesla VS oscar wilde VS paulette loup VS rakefine VS richard haringay VS sagax VS saira hawaa layla al-tahan VS saleh amoun al-tahan

WINNER: oscar wilde

POLL H:

saleh ibrahim al-tahan VS sasha racket VS sassraa VS selene souchet VS shoshva VS siggif VS skraark VS sohra VS sumutnyerl VS tadyka

WINNER: sasha racket

POLL I:

thomas edison VS vesseek VS vivianne messier VS yoshida shoin VS zolf smith

WINNER: zolf smith

ROUND TWO

POLL A:

azu VS celquinthion sidebottom VS edward keystone

WINNER: celquinthion sidebottom

POLL B:

grizzop drik acht amsterdam VS james barnes VS kiko

WINNER: james barnes

POLL C:

oscar wilde VS sasha racket VS zolf smith

WINNER: oscar wilde

ROUND THREE

celquinthion sidebottom VS james barnes VS oscar wilde

WINNER: oscar wilde