Lesson Five: Slanguage |
If you've ever watched Japanese gangster movies, or had the misfortune of running into a yakuza in person, you know they speak a seemingly incomprehensible form of Japanese. As outcasts and devi...
Posted by The Yakuza" on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:28:00 PST |
Lesson Four: Gurentai |
Post-War Yakuza: Gurentai Also, as Japan began to industrialise and the urban movement really got underway, a third group of yakuza called gurentai began to emerge (though the name gurentai was not g...
Posted by The Yakuza" on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:21:00 PST |
Lesson Three |
Tekiya and Bakuto The origin of other yakuza organizations can be traced to two special groups known as tekiya (peddlers) and bakuto (gamblers). Their origin can be seen in current yakuza initiation ...
Posted by The Yakuza" on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:49:00 PST |
Lesson Two |
While the sakura (flowering cherry) is revered as a sacred tree, before the Heian period (794-1185) another blossom enjoyed top billing: The ume (plum), which had been introduced from China, was most...
Posted by The Yakuza" on Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:53:00 PST |
Lesson One |
The Yakuza evolved into their current form late in the 19th-century under figures like Toyama Mitsuru. This son of a Samurai founded the Genyosha (Dark Ocean) Society, and later Toyama's top aide Ryoh...
Posted by The Yakuza" on Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:26:00 PST |
