[Image: Kanno Miho as the Shogun Tsunayoshi; she is holding a fan] Credit: moviecollection.jp
Contains major spoilers for Ôoku: Eien (Emonnosuke/Tsunayoshi) (film, 2013) and Yoshinaga Fumi’s Ôoku, vol. 4-6 (manga).
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Mandate of Heaven, Law of Compassion: Ôoku: Eien (Emonnosuke/Tsunayoshi) (Film Review)
Posted in Ôoku, Gender, Manga, tagged Ôoku Eien, castle of crossed destinies, Emonnosuke, feminist film, Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Tsunayoshi, Ōoku on 2016/02/04| Leave a Comment »
The Inner Chambers of the Dog Shogun: Ôoku, Volumes 4-6, Part 3
Posted in Ôoku, Gender, tagged Arikoto, Ôoku Eien, Bechdel Test, Denbe, Fumi Yoshinaga, genderswap, Gyokuei, Keshôin, manga, manga review, Nobuhira, O-den, Oooku, representation, Tsunayoshi, writing, Yoshinaga Fumi, Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa, Ōoku on 2014/05/09| 4 Comments »
New to Ôoku? Start here. Introduction to this arc here.
Major spoilers for the Iemitsu (vol 2-4) and Tsunayoshi arcs (vol. 4-6), including the drama and the Ôoku: Eien film. Warnings: the plot of this story arc contains sexual assault and abuse, dubious consent, murder, the death of a child, and back-stabbing, and is generally NSFW.
Tsunayoshi plays a game with her daughter Matsu-hime. Vol. 5, p. 16.
Hideous Beauty
One aspect of Tsunayoshi’s character that I found fascinating was her relationship to beauty ideals. (more…)
Inside the Inner Chambers of the Dog Shogun: Ôoku, Volumes 4-6, Part 2
Posted in Ôoku, Gender, tagged Arikoto, Ôoku Eien, Bechdel Test, Denbe, Fumi Yoshinaga, genderswap, Gyokuei, Keshôin, manga, manga review, Nobuhira, O-den, Oooku, representation, Tsunayoshi, writing, Yoshinaga Fumi, Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa, Ōoku on 2014/04/14| 1 Comment »
Introduction here. Spoilers for the Iemitsu (vol 2-4) and Tsunayoshi arcs (vol. 4-6), including the drama and the Ôoku: Eien film. Warnings: the plot of this story arc contains sexual assault and abuse, dubious consent, suicide, murder, and all the back-stabbing. I’ve kept the mostly images PG-13 (there’s a little gore in one) but the content is not safe for work.
“I’m not like the former Shogun, who agreed to anything.” Vol. 183.
Brought to you by the Bechdel test
Let’s start with the most obvious point: Tsunayoshi can be a morally reprehensible woman precisely because the Ôoku has equal gender representation, both in her story arc and the work at large. (more…)
Inside the Inner Chambers of the Dog Shogun: Ooku, Volumes 4-6
Posted in Ôoku, Gender, tagged Arikoto, Ôoku Eien, Ôoku: Tanjô, Fumi Yoshinaga, genderwap, Gyokuei, manga, manga review, Oooku, Tsunayoshi, Yoshinaga Fumi, Ōoku on 2014/03/29| 6 Comments »
Spoilers for the Iemitsu (vol 2-4) and Tsunayoshi arcs (vol. 4-5), including the drama and the Ôoku: Eien film.
I have been thinking about this post for three years.
Vol. 4, p. 123. “Bored! Bored! Bored!” and sick of all her concubines.
Initially, when I finished reading the Iemitsu-Arikoto story arc (see here for manga and here for drama recaps), I was emotionally raw. (more…)
Thoughts on the Trailers for Ôoku: Tanjô and Ôoku: Eien
Posted in Ôoku, Gender, Manga, tagged Arikoto, よしながふみ, Ôoku Eien, Ôoku: Tanjô, 男女逆転大奥, drama, Emonosuke, 誕生, film, Iemitsu, manga, Ohoku, Tokugawa, trailer, TV, Yoshinaga Fumi, Ōoku, 大奥, 永遠 on 2012/10/03| 3 Comments »
The official trailers for Ôoku: Tanjô and Ôoku: Eien have both been released. (For the full index of posts on the series, see here.)
Ôoku: Tanjô (Iemitsu/Arikoto)
Image from TBS. http://www.tbs.co.jp/ohoku2012/
Promotional Pictures for Ôoku Drama and Movie (2012)
Posted in Advertisements, Ôoku, Gender, Manga, Visual Culture, tagged alternate history, Arikoto, よしながふみ, Ôoku Eien, Ôoku: Tanjô, Birth, 男女逆転大奥, Emonosuke, Eternity, film, Gyokuei, Iemitsu, Kaneko Fuminori, KAT-TUN, manga, Ohoku, Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Oooku, Sakai Masato, speculative fiction, Tanabe Makako, TBS, Tsunayoshi, Yoshinaga Fumi, Ōoku on 2012/08/18| 4 Comments »
Finally! I’ve been waiting and waiting for some teaser photos from the new Ôoku TV series (Ôoku Tanjô, Oct. 2012) and film (Ôoku Eien, Dec. 2012), and here they are! (Full index of posts on the series here.)
TBS Drama. Ôoku: Tanjô (Arikoto/Iemitsu) (『大奥：誕生』[［有功・家光篇]). Release date: Oct. 2012.
“The Shogun is a woman; her retainers are 3000 beautiful men….” Photo from TBS: http://ohoku.jp/eien/index.html
Oh.
Let me talk about effective uses of visual media for marketing to potential viewers and to rabid fans. When you release the first promotional photos into the wild, you want your audience to have an immediate all-caps reaction Tumblr-style:
WHAT IS THAT I MUST SEE IT NOW
ALL THE FEELS
CAN’T BREATHE
John Barrowman after David Tennant kissed him at ComicCon
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