Snow Ridge, Sword Dance

Snow Ridge, Sword Dance

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Genres
Action, Seinen, Drama, Historical, Mature, Tragedy
Summary
  • Snow Ridge, Sword Dance consists of two story lines set in the Sengoku Era
  • Snow Ridge surrounds the head of the Satake family who is torn between two political factions
  • Sword Dance is the tragic life of a vindictive girl who falls in love with a swordsman
Description
1-4. Yuki no Touge In the end of the Sengoku period, the great daimyo family of Satake is driven away from Hitachi-no-kuni to Dewa-no-kuni after the Sekigahara battle. They plan to build a new castle there, but the head of the family, Yoshinobu Satake, listens more to the young vassals' advice than that of the experienced chief vassals'. The experienced vassals oppose and start to plan something to defend their place... 5-9. Tsurugi no Mai It's Sengoku period. Haruna, a daughter of a farmer family, gets herself raped and her family killed by hooligan warriors in the chaos of war. Using the funds she got of the Go stones stolen from the warriors, she joins the dojo of the famous Nobutsuna Kamiizumi to learn kenjutsu in order to get revenge on the warriors. There, she meets Kamiizumi's apprentice Bungorou Hikita, who starts to teach her the art of the sword with the shinai that Kamiizumi has just invented...
Authors
Hitoshi Iwaaki
art
story
Other Facts
Published
1999 to 2000
Serialization
Morning Shin-Magnum Special (Kodansha), Young Champion (Akita Shoten)
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