Japanese Culture

The history and festival presentations were awesome. They had a lot of information and very interesting. I liked hearing about the great swordsman and the strategic invasions (that's if i heard correctly :D;)Some of my favorite anime use japanese history in their plot. Rurouni Kenshin takes place during the meiji era. Peacemaker also has some of the historical Shinsengumi members in it's series such as Okita Souji and Saitou Hajime. Shinsengumi were a police group back during the late Tokugawa Shogunate period. He is among one of the strongest and well known in the Shinsengumi Okita Souji has not only been featured in Rurouni Kenshin and Peacemaker, but he was also in a novel called Shinsengumi Keppuroku, Ghost sweeper Mikami, and Shura No Toki. The latter three I haven't seen. He was born in 1842 or 1844. He had two older sisters. He started training around the tender age of nine. Peacemaker had that right for the most part. In 1861 he became Jukutou or head couch at the Shieikan. He was quite the prodigy that he was XD! Peacemaker Souji is pictured on the side there.
I googled the image and my information came from wikipedia.org