The Truth Behind TV’s Toyama No Kin San,…
Toyama Kagemoto died on this day, April 15, 1855.
If you’ve ever watched Japanese TV or movies, you may well have seen the period drama, Toyama no Kin San, the legend about a samurai official who goes incognito during the days as a low ranking warrior known simply as Kin San (Mr. Kin), only to solve crimes and help the long-suffering commoners of Edo in their plight against greedy officials, evil money lenders, ruffians and the like, revealing his cherry-blossom-crested tattooed shoulders only in the last moments when fighting the bad guys.