坂本竜馬

I want to touch on a historical person whose name is 坂本竜馬 (Sakamoto Ryoma) in this post.

Recently, 1 year-running histrical drama of NHK that featured Ryoma was finished.

Ryoma is a thinker and an activist of the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate during the end of this period. He was born in low class family and was a victim of bullying. However, through lots of  encounters with people affect his thoughts or mates' death he was becoming to think about the need for end Tokugawa shogunate and launch new system. Finally, Ryoma succeed in ending the shogunate by letting the 15th shogun return political power to the emperor.

So he is really popular because of his life that is like a drama.



Ryoma acted by 福山雅治(Fukuyama Masaharu)
http://stat001.ameba.jp/user_images/20100103/19/firstitpro/20/00/j/o0388033810363332421.jpg

real Ryoma
http://img02.ti-da.net/usr/wokinawa/sakamotoryoma.jpg

This year many things featuring Ryoma has been seen. For example, one of the dolls of Hirakata chrysanthemum festival was Ryoma. You can see the pictures in VAOJ's October 8, post.

Then, I noticed some differences through watching TV drama of Ryoma.

I had read book about his history so I've done some research about him and there was a quite big gap between what I learned and the drama.

It's natural because TVdrama is kind of entertainment but I still feel like unnatural.

His appearance, heroicness and many things were too grate. I would rather say he is failure.

Besides, launching his own company, his plans or dreams almost do not come true.

However, he seemed to be extremely rare type of people in that era in Japan so he deserve to going deep into the study of his life or thought.