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Chotto Edo Made manga [message #265798] Sat, 30 August 2014 23:19 Go to next message
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CHOTTO EDO MADE manga

Alternative Name:ちょっと江戸まで; 目标,江户!
Genre(s):Comedy, Historical, School Life, Shoujo
Author and Artist :Tsuda Masami
Chotto Edo Made Manga
Summary: The comedy story is set in an ultra-prestigious middle
school at the height of Edo-era Tokyo, but withour the Meji Restoration.
It [centers] around a son of the ruling Tokugawa clan's Mito family and
a daughter of an elite Edo magisterial family

Seems to be an educational manga with lots of comparison of the
differences between Edo and modern day Tokyo. Not historical but
alternate universe where the shogunate never fell. The boy looks
and acts a lot like a girl, over-indulged, coddled and the girl is going
to daily sword practice after an early hand to mouth life in the
provinces, they end up at the same school. This is slow moving
and I am at chapter 5.

Google is your friend if you want to read this.

bliss
Re: Chotto Edo Made manga [message #266540 is a reply to message #265798] Thu, 04 September 2014 21:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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"Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:ltu489$c8d$1@dont-email.me...


CHOTTO EDO MADE manga

Alternative Name:ちょっと江戸まで; 目标,江户!
Genre(s):Comedy, Historical, School Life, Shoujo
Author and Artist :Tsuda Masami
Chotto Edo Made Manga
Summary: The comedy story is set in an ultra-prestigious middle
school at the height of Edo-era Tokyo, but withour the Meji Restoration.
It [centers] around a son of the ruling Tokugawa clan's Mito family and
a daughter of an elite Edo magisterial family

Seems to be an educational manga with lots of comparison of the
differences between Edo and modern day Tokyo. Not historical but
alternate universe where the shogunate never fell. The boy looks
and acts a lot like a girl, over-indulged, coddled and the girl is going
to daily sword practice after an early hand to mouth life in the
provinces, they end up at the same school. This is slow moving
and I am at chapter 5.

Google is your friend if you want to read this.

bliss

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So is this in a private-school-like setting? A little before that era, you
either hired a private tutor or go to a "tera-ya," which stands for a room
in a temple. A self-employed teacher would rent a room in a temple to offer
lessons on how to read and write to whoever that can afford the tuition. I
guess they didn't have community center back then so temple might have been
the only place that can provide space for large group.

Japan didn't have public schools until 1890s or 1900s. Around that time
they invaded China and won. As a restitution they received amount that was
equivalent to three years of Japan's federal budget. They took that money
and built schools and hired teachers. Back then there were still very few
that can read and write and a teacher earned ten times what a day laborer
would make.

The second Azumi series also depicted that era quite realistically. In the
first few volumes a family of low-level samurai was constantly bullied by
their masters and their stipend wasn't enough so the wife had to work from
home. (A group of better-off samurai conspired to rape the betrothed of a
poorer samurai because they can get get away with it, leading to her death.)
Re: Chotto Edo Made manga [message #266541 is a reply to message #266540] Thu, 04 September 2014 21:52 Go to previous message
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On 09/04/2014 06:04 PM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:
>
>
> "Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:ltu489$c8d$1@dont-email.me...
>
>
> CHOTTO EDO MADE manga
>
> Alternative Name:ちょっと江戸まで; 目标,江户!
> Genre(s):Comedy, Historical, School Life, Shoujo
> Author and Artist :Tsuda Masami
> Chotto Edo Made Manga
> Summary: The comedy story is set in an ultra-prestigious middle
> school at the height of Edo-era Tokyo, but withour the Meji Restoration.
> It [centers] around a son of the ruling Tokugawa clan's Mito family and
> a daughter of an elite Edo magisterial family
>
> Seems to be an educational manga with lots of comparison of the
> differences between Edo and modern day Tokyo. Not historical but
> alternate universe where the shogunate never fell. The boy looks
> and acts a lot like a girl, over-indulged, coddled and the girl is going
> to daily sword practice after an early hand to mouth life in the
> provinces, they end up at the same school. This is slow moving
> and I am at chapter 5.
>
> Google is your friend if you want to read this.
>
> bliss
>
> --------------------------------
>
> So is this in a private-school-like setting? A little before that era,
> you either hired a private tutor or go to a "tera-ya," which stands for
> a room in a temple. A self-employed teacher would rent a room in a
> temple to offer lessons on how to read and write to whoever that can
> afford the tuition. I guess they didn't have community center back then
> so temple might have been the only place that can provide space for
> large group.
>
> Japan didn't have public schools until 1890s or 1900s. Around that time
> they invaded China and won. As a restitution they received amount that
> was equivalent to three years of Japan's federal budget. They took that
> money and built schools and hired teachers. Back then there were still
> very few that can read and write and a teacher earned ten times what a
> day laborer would make.
>
> The second Azumi series also depicted that era quite realistically. In
> the first few volumes a family of low-level samurai was constantly
> bullied by their masters and their stipend wasn't enough so the wife had
> to work from home. (A group of better-off samurai conspired to rape the
> betrothed of a poorer samurai because they can get get away with it,
> leading to her death.)


Well if the Bakafu had survived it would have had to change.
One of the changes may have been to still beat Russian and China
with the same commanders loyal not to the Meiji Emperor but to the head
of the Bakafu.
From some of the side illustrations foreign trade is going on.
But the foot is still the general means of transportation. The Tokkaido
is still the main road South from Edo.
The girl's father was as we used to say "foot loose and fancy
free" aka "sowing his wild oats". When he died his succeeding son
decided to go after the child who had been left with her mother but
being a magistrate in Edo he was busy and sent a trusted retainer.

I don't think the author though through the ramifications of
the survival of the Bakafu or the retention of Edo as the administrative
center of Japan. Maybe further chapters will prove me wrong or some
surprise will explain what happened.

bliss
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