
Hello everyone:)
How are you doing??
Yesterday, I played on the stage at Eigamura
with Tsuyoshi Inoue ( http://toei-kyoto.com/actor/tsuyoshi-inoue/ )
standing in the photo.
He played Ro-nin in the show.
Ro-nin is one type of Samurai, which is usually a bad character.
In the history, Ro-nin was the name for samurai who doesn’t belong to any samurai-organaization.
Samurai normally works for his own king ( leader samurai), fights against other Samurai-organization and occupies other’s district.
However Ro-nin doesn’t have his own king to respect.
Some of them had storng enough power to threaten the citizen,
so that they had a bad reputation.
( Of course, other Ro-nin were good, became teachers for kids or helped rice farmer, etc…)
Now when we write the story of Samurai, Ro-nin hardly works for the hero, but works in a gang or with bad Samurais….
So it is easy to tell who will be a criminal in the Samurai dramas, even if you haven’t seen the drama before….
The leader who works with Ro-nin is the bad guy!!!
Please check it out when you see Samurai drama or show next time:)
You see two Ro-nins in the Chambara show.
Kyon