By secular standards, Iguchi Kiyobei was a mediocre person and an unsuccessful person.
His wife died of tuberculosis, his mother had dementia, his two daughters were young, and the three women depended on him to support them all. At the beginning, he was heavily in debt to treat his wife's illness, and he sold his father's samurai sword to bury his wife. I have been making ends meet, complaining that everything is going up in price. The edges and corners of my youth have long been smoothed out by mediocre life, leaving only the pressure of making money and the responsibility of raising a family.
At the same time, this man has to carry housework on his shoulders, and he has no time or money to take a bath frequently. Outsiders see his body and clothes as dirty and sloppy, and the strange smell on his body has become the laughing stock of everyone.
In the evening, my colleagues like to find a tavern and find a beautiful woman to accompany them to drink and have fun. And this man always came home after work, and his colleagues thought he was unfit and boring, and nicknamed him "The Seibei of Twilight".
In the end, he died in the war of the emperor's reset, becoming the cannon fodder of the times, and died in obscurity.
By worldly standards, Pengjiang is not a successful woman. She has never married a rich and handsome husband. The first marriage was to a wealthy sheriff, and it was indeed domestic violence. In the second marriage, in just three years, the husband died in the war and was a widow for the rest of his life.
But Iguchi Kiyobei and Pengjiang are great and happy people.
It seems that there is no such thing as "success and fame". The ordinary and even humble life has never worn away their love for their family and their love for their lover. In the end, the daughter grows up and becomes a talent, and the lover finally gets married. Although it is short-lived, what more can the husband ask for?
We will never return to the era of the Warring States Period or Miyamoto Musashi. The talented warriors were obsessed with kendo and slaughter in order to be the lord of the city or to win the title of No. 1 in the world, and they used Buddhist meditation to cultivate self-restraint. In the era, in order to protect the villagers against the robbers, the fallen warriors drew their swords to help each other, and the justice was awe-inspiring.
In the shogunate era after the unification of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the society was peaceful and stable. The samurai lost the opportunity to make military exploits, and the "katana sword" on their waists only became a status symbol, and the channels for advancement and making a living became narrower and narrower. Lick blood on the knife edge.
However, at the end of the shogunate, American gunboats had opened the door to Japan, and the power of foreign guns, iron guns and capital began to reshape the whole of Japan. The era of swords is gone, and the samurai's salary is becoming more and more difficult to maintain. pregnancy. Soon, the war between the emperor and the shogunate broke out, the Meiji emperor was reset, and the Restoration Reform began.
Qingbingwei died in the war with the emperor, and with the fall of the shogun, the samurai completely withdrew from the stage of history.
Since then, samurai have stripped off their samurai robes and kept their katana swords at home, Bushido gave way to nationalism and work ethic, put on suits, and entered the age of money, railroads, planes, and aircraft carriers with great fanfare.
Later, there are atomic bombs, abandoned houses in Heisei and anime.
Samurai, with their strength and virtue, became legends. However, they didn't really care, even if they were once alive, how could they be immortal? When the cherry blossoms fall, there will be cherry blossoms in the next year, and the sunset will also rise tomorrow. If you don't have the opportunity to seek fame and fortune, then you can feel at ease with your family, get married with a lover, fulfill your duties at work, and be a kind and righteous person in life, isn't it also a kind of happiness?
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