<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > the prestigious Japanese era drama manga " Drama Painting "Drama"</h1>
In the 1960s in Japan, after experiencing the first great leap of the manga revolution represented by Osamu Tezuka ( the 1950s ) , with the rapid rise of the Japanese economy , a new type of manga called "drama painting" emerged, most of which was based on the history of Japan in the Sengoku period, whether it was character portrayal or manga techniques were quite delicate, just like China's "Shaw costume drama", which quickly became famous in the Japanese manga industry and became a beautiful landscape.
The full name of "drama painting" is "era drama manga", in fact, it is a kind of early Japanese youth manga, according to the manga genre can be divided into historical manga, but the protagonists of the era drama manga are mostly swordsmen and samurai, the manga plot is full of legends and tragic colors, becoming a unique Japanese martial arts manga, the background of the birth of the drama is the decline of papier-medaka manga in the 60s.
"Paper Zhiju" is a form of performance of wandering artists, they put a lot of comic cards in a cardboard box, while flipping the cards while telling stories, paper Zhiju artists wandered all over Japan, every time they went to a place, first blew the unique "Law Conch" of Paper Zhiju, attracting crowds, and the crowd began to perform after gathering.
Mitsuhira Shiratsuchi and Hideki Mori's Faction of Period Drama Manga: Big Comic, Shogakukan Manga Magazine
Before the popularity of manga magazines, there are many paper Zhiju manga artists to survive by making comics for paper Shibaju artists, due to the rising circulation of manga magazines published by Japanese publishing houses, the business of paper Zhiju artists who go south and north is getting worse and worse, and the profit income from the performance of paper Zhiju artists mainly comes from the tips of guests, but as the comics serialized in manga magazines become more and more exciting, paper Zhiju manga also loses competitiveness, and a large number of paper Zhiju manga artists begin to change careers.
At the end of the 1950s, there were about 50,000 paper Shibaju artists in Japan, after gradually declining, many paper Shiba manga artists began to serialize comics in manga magazines, and finally became the later era drama manga, that is, drama painting, the era drama manga inherited many characteristics of the paper Shibaju, the plot is not conventional, the character personality is full, and the ancient history of Japan and the strange things and legends of the Japanese people are the mainstay.
As a manga drawing, the drawing style was more delicate and mature than the popular juvenile manga at that time, and was deeply loved by the audience who grew up in the manga and was very picky about the manga, so that after the popularity of the manga, the juvenile manga led by Osamu Tezuka was crushed, and even the assistant of Osamu Tezuka Studio was addicted to the era drama manga, which made the god of manga quite embarrassed.
Japanese period drama manga master Shiratori Mihei
< h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > period manga Shirato Sanpeiichi faction</h1>
In 1957, Shiratoro Mihei, who studied under the manga artist Hiroka iburra, published his manga debut "Little Swordsman" as an assistant, and since then Shirato Mihei's manga has formed his own style - there is a rigorous logic and scientific basis in the manga, and later became a dramatist of the Shiratori Mihira school and his assistant Tsuyoshi Kojima.
Two predecessors of Japanese Era Drama Manga: Script Writer Kazuo Koike (left), Era Drama Manga Artist Tsuyoshi Kojima (right)
In 1972, Kojima Tsuyoshi created the famous era drama comic "Wolf with a Belt" based on the script of Kazuo Koike, which tells the story of the water gull stream master Bai Yi Dao and his son Daigoro walking through the rivers and lakes to take revenge, Bai Yi Dao was hunted down and killed by the Yanagi clan, and once hesitated when taking his son to walk the rivers and lakes, so he asked him to choose between the ball and the knife, this manga plot was later adopted by the 1994 "New Shaolin Five Ancestors" film directed by Wang Jing and starring Jet Li.
In 1994, Wang Jing's film "New Shaolin Five Ancestors" used the bridge section from Tsuyoshi Kojima's "Wolf with a Baby"
The era drama manga "Wolf with a Baby" fascinated an 11-year-old boy named Hideki Mori in Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture, Japan, who aspired to become such a manga artist in the future.
In 1982, Hideki Mori made his debut, his manga inherited the manga style of Kojima Tsuyoshi and the characteristics of the Shiraku school of period drama manga, known as the Kojima style manga artist, in 1997, debuted 15 years ago, 36-year-old manga Mori Hideki created the era drama manga "Hundred Foot Battle Flag", the manga tells the fate of the "Hundred Feet" of the Gold Digger clan under the command of Takeda Shingen, the first warrior of the Sengoku sengoku period.
Takeda Shingen was the most powerful Japanese Sengoku daimyō before Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu became famous, and in 1573, Takeda Shingen led a large army to engage in the "Three-Sided Battle of Hara" with the combined forces of Oda and Tokugawa, in which the Takeda cavalry broke the "iron artillery unit" (musket team) of the Oda and Tokugawa alliances, which surprised the warriors who practiced military superiority.
In the 1960s, Shiratoro Mihei wrote a mature and stable style of period drama manga
In the "Hundred Foot Battle Flag" manga, the economic backing of the huge Takeda Army cavalry force is supported by the Kafi gold diggers in the territory of Takeda, called the "Hundred Foot Clan", but with the depletion of the Golden Mountain, the leader of the Hundred Foot Clan Gold Diggers pins his hopes on the younger generation of Zuo Ji, who led the "Hundred Foot" to leave the KaiJin Mountain that has been passed down from generation to generation, and joined the Takeda Army to show the strengths of the Gold Digger clan, and shine.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > the Takeda family's gold treasure hidden by Takasugi Suke's right guard</h1>
Hideki Mori's period drama manga "Hundred Foot Battle Flag" takes full advantage of the characteristics of the "White Earth Faction" and makes full use of the Japanese folk legend about the "Takeda family's golden treasure", it is said that after the defeat of Takeda Katsurai, the last daimyō of the Takeda family in the "Battle of Nagashina" in 1575, the Takeda family was destroyed, and the Takasugi Suke right guard who was in charge of the gold reserves of the Takeda family hid the gold of the Takeda family at the Murata Shrine.
Cover of the era drama manga "Belt Wolf" created by Tsuyoshi Kojima in the 1970s
There was a total of 20 million taels of gold hidden under the shrine, equivalent to 400 billion yen today, and this money has been kept by Takasugi Suke and his descendants, ready to be used as a secret fund for the restoration of the Takeda clan, but unfortunately, the situation in the Warring States was turbulent, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi eventually died out, and Tokugawa Ieyasu established the shogunate, but even then the Takasugi clan did not give up.
By the Edo period, the Choshu Domain, under the influence of the Takasugi clan's rich financial resources, launched a confrontation against the shogunate, and after two Choshu conquests and a major defeat of the Tokugawa shogunate army, it finally gave the Takeda family a bad breath, and the leader of the Choshu army was Takasugi Jinsaku of the Takasugi clan. Of course, this is just folklore, not enough to believe.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" > the secret of Kurokawa Kaneyama in "Hundred Foot Battle Flag"</h1>
However, this folklore became one of the fulcrums of the era drama manga "Hundred Foot Battle Flag", in which Hideki Mori expounded his views on the war of the Golden Clan, and after investigating the excavation history of Kanayama in the Kurokawa area of Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, he believed that one of the biggest reasons why the Takeda Army was quite invincible in the Sengoku Period was the strong financial resources provided by Takeda gold diggers.
During the Sengoku period of Japan, Takeda Shingen led the Production of Kai-shek gold coins from Kanayama
War is ultimately to fight the economy, the Sengoku period cavalry is one of the most cost-effective soldiers, a large number of purchases of warhorses and armor need financial support, Takeda family territory of Kurokawa Kaneyama is its largest source of gold, the manga gold digger "Hundred Feet" on the one hand to dig the gold of the golden mountain, on the other hand must contribute these gold to the Takeda family, in exchange for the minimum guarantee of survival, in other words, they are only employed by the Takeda family, the gold dug out can not be used as all, Not only that, but all they get is enough to survive.
Ancient Japanese paintings stored in Shinshu depicting the work processes of the Nuggets
However, there were also times when Kanayama dried up, according to historical records, the excavation volume of Kurokawa Kaneyama reached its peak around 1573, and after that it began to decline, and two years later, at the Battle of Nagashina, the gold production of Kurokawa Kaneyama was not as good as before, which also caused the strength of the Takeda army, without economic support, and finally led to the defeat of the Takeda army.
Many historians who have studied the Japanese Sengoku believe that Takeda Katsurai's insistence on seeking a decisive battle is the main reason for the defeat of the Takeda family, but Hideki Mori further points out in the manga that the economic exhaustion behind this is the real reason for Katsurai's single-minded desire to fight, and if there is no decisive battle, there may be no war, and the Takeda family will disintegrate on its own because of the depletion of the Kanayama.
Yasuda Yoshinori, the founder of Takahashi-san Yoshinori Temple, located in the northeast of Yamanashi Prefecture, is believed to have been the first to discover the Kurokawa gold mine
Why, then, didn't Takeda Shingen equip the army with a new weapon such as the "iron cannon" at the peak of his financial strength, but chose the cavalry? According to the "Tale of the Iron Cannon", the iron cannon was only introduced to Japan in 1543, the earliest is the pre-charge slow-fire smoothbore gun, although the effective range is 200 meters, but the shooting accuracy is only within 40 meters, that is, within 200 meters you can not hit people.
The Japanese iron cannon "two-stage strike" and other formations recorded in the "Jiayang Military Chronicle" and other documents
And because the earliest iron cannon is a slow-fire type, when you hold the gun to face the infantry and cavalry rushing over, you don't know when the gun will sound, causing considerable psychological pressure to the iron gunner, many times the gun has not yet sounded, the iron gunner panicked and lost the crosshair or even lost the gun and fled, Takeda Shingen believes that the "iron cannon" was an immature class at that time, and from the perspective of the "military god" warrior, what is needed is stability rather than gambling.
However, with the deepening of the use of iron cannons, not only the innovative "instantaneous iron cannons" appeared, but also the three-stage attack, hanging bottle shooting, and early combination of the iron cannons, but at the end of Takeda Shingen's power, even if the equipment and tactics were changed, it was too late, because the cavalry system had penetrated into the bone marrow of the Takeda Army, and the equipment could be changed, but the concept could not be replaced, which also laid the groundwork for takeda Katsurai's great defeat.
The three-yard iron cannon and the thirteen-yard iron cannon in the Mori hideki manga, as well as the instantaneous front-loading iron cannon preserved in the Museum in Tokyo, Japan
In the face of the impact of the torrent of the times, is there really no way but to sit still?
In "The Battle Flag of the Hundred Feet", Mori Hideki expounded his own alternative view through the reform of the hundred feet: giving full play to his own strengths can be exchanged for living space. In the manga, Hideki Mori divides the gold diggers into gold diggers, alchemists, gold keepers, and intelligence collectors according to the gold mining process of the gold diggers, and after the gold mountain is exhausted, the gold diggers become a mysterious force in the Takeda Army according to their own strengths.
The Nuggets can dig tunnels in siege battles to assist in attacks from underground, the Gold Keeper has powerful personal abilities and can act as an Assassin, and the Nuggets are intelligence-gathering scouts who are equivalent to ninjas, good at disguise and well-informed. The Nuggets with so many excellent abilities actually become a small mercenary group of special forces, which is also an employment relationship, and even if there is no Gold Mountain, it can survive the special skills mastered when digging gold.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="05" > the mystery of Takeda Shingen's death</h1>
In the era drama manga "Hundred Foot Battle Flag", Hideki Mori refers to Takeda's gold diggers as "Hundred Foot Crowd", but in fact, the Hundred Foot Crowd has another person, Takeda Shingen, the son of a warrior in the territory, a young and promising swordsman, into his Guard Army, and named it after the god of war, Bi Shamen Angel, "Hundred Foot". Takeda Twenty-Four had sanada Yukitaka's three sons and Yamagata Masaaki's son-in-law join this "hundred-footed crowd".
The "Hundred Foot Battle Flag" of the Hundred Foot Crowd in hideki Mori manga and the "Hundred Foot" in Japanese culture that is considered to be the god of war, Bi Shamen Ten
So, why does Mori Hideki use "Hundred Feet" as the title of the gold digger in "Hundred Foot Battle Flag"? This is still related to the characteristics of "era drama manga" and the tradition of "paper Shibaju" manga, in order to let the audience quickly enter the plot, the era drama manga artists will collect some popular titles related to the story, according to the needs of the plot into the manga, the Sengoku period mentioned Tokugawa Ieyasu is tokugawa Shitenō, mention Oda Nobunaga is to kill Imakawa Yoshimoto and Shibata and Hideyoshi dispute, mention Takeda Shingen, Takeda Twenty-Four Generals and "Hundred Foot Crowd" are quite prestigious in the folk.
Hundred feet is the meaning of centipede in Japanese, at the beginning of the "Hundred Foot Battle Flag", an enemy ninja pretended to be a gold digger to trample a centipede to death, so it aroused the suspicion of the gold keeper Zuo Ji, because in Japanese culture, the centipede's feet and money are pronounced similarly, there is the meaning of money rolling in, seeing the centipede is a good omen, just like going out to see a magpie, not to mention that the nuggets need luck, the nuggets believe that centipedes can bring them good luck.
In addition, the centipede (hundred feet) is also regarded by the Japanese as a symbol of the god of war, because the many feet of the centipede will only advance and not retreat, which means that all people are united and courageous, and it is for this reason that Takeda Shingen's Young Guards use the name "Hundred Feet".
Mori Hideki's period drama manga has been improved by generations of Shiratsu Mihei and Kojima Tsuyoshi, and has many ups and downs in drama, such as "Hundred Foot Battle Flag", the most exciting is the Takeda Shingento lonely section. In 1575, before the outbreak of the Battle of Nagashiki, which led to the demise of the Takeda family, the takeda family's elderly retainers completed a military law book, "Koyo Junkan", which recorded the history and history of the Takeda family's battles, of which the chapter "The Battle of The Three Sides" in which Takeda Shingen died during the expedition attracted the most attention.
Hideki Mori interprets this gripping history based on the "Koyang Junjian" and through comics:
The plot of Hideki Mori's manga in which Matsuyoshi Mura plays a flute to seduce Takeda Shingen and the Matsudaira Chronicles, which records this story
In January 1753, 19,000 takeda troops came to Noda Castle to start a siege battle, Noda Castle was momentarily panicked, and the shogun who guarded the castle, Suganuma Dingying, in order to stabilize people's hearts, hired the famous piper Mura Matsumoto to play the flute every night to boost morale, because Muramatsu Yoshiyuki's flute sound was so beautiful that Takeda Shingen also came to the castle every night to listen.
There was an "iron cannon celebrity" (sharpshooter) Torii Sanzoemon under the Suganuma Dingying seat, and after discovering this situation, he decided to design a cold gun to Shingen, but because Takeda was too far from the city to aim, the Japanese slow-hair type front loading smoothbore gun had an accurate range of only a few tens of meters, so Noda Lord Suganuma Dingying ordered the famous piper Mura Matsuyoshi to play in the house, so that the flute became smaller, and Takeda would definitely come closer if he wanted to hear clearly.
The next day, Torii Sanzoemon hit Shingen listening to the flute with a specially built thirteen-yard iron cannon, and Shingen decided to withdraw after arranging everything, and the brigade was led by Shingen's younger brother "Shadow Warrior" Takeda Nobuyoshi, while he was escorted by a hundred footmen to detour the path, and finally Takeda Shingen died of a gunshot wound on the way back to Japan.
Previously, Takeda Shingen had defeated the combined forces of Nobunaga and Tokugawa, and if this battle was successful in Shangjing, the first to win the world would probably not be Oda Nobunaga but Takeda Shingen, and history would probably have to be rewritten, but unfortunately, the "Wind Forest Volcano" would eventually be buried in a foreign land.
The story does not end abruptly because of the fall of Shingen, and the end of the Mori Hideki's period drama manga is even more exciting, and the Takeda family's hundred foot people finally convince the Tsukitobu people who built Azuchi Castle for Oda Nobunaga, bury a mysterious plan in Azuchi Castle, and then attack Tokugawa Ieyasu's mansion at night, using the Takeda family's kanayama to fund Tokugawa Ieyasu against the Oda Nobunaga forces.
Although the plot of the manga is exaggerated, Azuchi Castle, which claims to be the number one in the world, is eventually captured, and Tokugawa Ieyasu eventually wins the world.
In the 1980 Kurosawa film Shadow Samurai, the director explains the plot of Shingen's death from sniping and hides Mori manga in which Shingen is sniped
In the Mori Hideki manga, Takeda Shingen listens to the flute in Noda Castle and is sniped by Torii Sanzoemon, mainly from the Matsudaira Chronicles written by Shiro Abe, and the 1980 film "Shadow Samurai" directed by Akira Kurosawa also adopts the same plot as the manga "Hundred Foot Battle Flag".
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="06" > spear and shield for the epoch drama comic "Hundred Foot Battle Flag"</h1>
Because of the historical citations and references involved in the history of the manga manga, the era drama manga usually asks the manga script to create the manga plot, and most of Mori Hideki's other works are also like this, such as the manga script of "Ink Attack" is written by Kenichi Saomichi, the script author of "Flower Rope" and "New BeltEd Wolf" is Kazuo Koike, the script author of "Thirteen Assassins" is Shoichiro Ikemiya, and "Hundred Foot Battle Flag" does not find a special script author to help, so many people think that Hideki Mori's era drama manga is full of loopholes and lacks evidence.
A sign located at the site of Noda Castle, where Shingen was sniped
However, the rumors about Takeda Shingen in Japanese folklore are no different from those described in Mori Hideki's manga, and even noda Castle has established the "Shingen Sniper Place" as a famous tourist attraction to honor the ancients, and the thirteen-yard iron cannon that caused Shingen to be seriously injured also became famous in the war and was named "Shingen Cannon". The ancients who have experienced real history have long disappeared, but the plausible folklore has survived by word of mouth, which is the unique charm of the era drama comics.