preface

Chapter 1: The Circumstances of the Sheep
Chapter 2 Difficulties and Issues
Chapter 3: The Oily Invasion
Chapter 4: The First Half of the Second Opium War
Chapter 5 John Man
Chapter 6: Black Ships
Chapter 7: Black Ships
Chapter 8: The Game of General Jeong I
Chapter 9: The Inside Story of Late Edo Period Academics
Chapter 10: The Inside Story of the Last Emperor's Regime
Chapter 11: Harris Ridge
Chapter 12: The Little Ball Shot by Komei
Chapter 13: Leeing~
Chapter 14: Distant Kyoto
Chapter 15: Separate payment of registration fees
Chapter 16: The Ansei Prison
Chapter 17: Under the Pinetree
Chapter 18 Bye ee

Major events and people

How on earth did Japan obtain the absolute ring of modernization?
What will the island nation choose when hit by the tsunami of its founding?
How did Japan achieve the success of modernization amidst the Western powers? This question cannot be overlooked when considering the impact of Japan's opening and modernization on us in the modern history of 19th-century East Asia.
This book traces the historical background and flow of Japan at the time to find an answer to that question.
It covers the tense history of the 1850s, when Britain was focused on the quest of the Sepoy Rebellion, and the United States was trying to take over the Pacific Ocean first, to the 1860s, when Daimyo Ii Naosuke was purged by assassins who opposed the opening of the country.
Additionally, the webtoon includes an additional article titled “Gup’s Arrogant Miscellany” to provide readers with more in-depth historical knowledge about topics not covered in the webtoon.

Japan is divided over systemic change.
Who will ultimately win between the pro-government and anti-isolation factions?
Outside, Western powers such as Russia, Britain, and the United States are lining up along the Pacific Ocean, and inside, Japan is embroiled in conflict between the pro-openness and pro-Western factions, and now there is conflict between political insiders and outsiders.
Samurai armed with ideologies such as Confucianism, national studies, and Mito-gaku (水??) shouted for respect for the king and expulsion of the barbarians, and the conflict between the Hitotsubashi faction, an outsider to the shogunate, and the Nanki faction, the established power of the shogunate, became increasingly intense over the issue of succession.
There, the emperor, who was nothing more than a puppet, began to oppose the authority of the shogunate, and Japan was divided in the face of an absolute crisis of internal strife and external trouble.
Although it was only a short period of about ten years, the early stages of Japan's opening to foreign trade were so complex and multifaceted that it would be difficult to grasp them all at once even if you read a whole book.
This book, which combines the familiar format of comics, B-movie sentiment and wit, and the author's extensive knowledge, presents a concise and entertaining introduction to Japan's often difficult-to-understand modern history.


The series “Authentic Korean, Chinese, and Japanese World History”

This is foul play! They're not even losing their sense of humor while still providing profound content!
Easily overcoming the historical convention that "you have to memorize it to understand it."
When we talk about 'history', we often have the common perception that it is 'boring' and that 'you have to memorize it to understand it'.
This may be because the memories of memorizing the years and events that occurred during middle and high school history classes are all that remain of our image of history.
In contrast, this series deviates significantly from the conventional wisdom that history must be memorized.

This time, cartoonist Gupsinist has published a historical cartoon that covers the modern history of Korea, China, and Japan, utilizing his major.
This series describes the modern history of 19th-century East Asia, naturally incorporating various subcultures such as games, military, animation, and dramas into it.
As you slowly follow the author's extensive knowledge of history, the various parodies and wordplay that are sprinkled throughout, the zeitgeist and world situation of the time will naturally come to mind.
Through this series, readers will experience a significant reduction in the barriers to entry into history, which has often been perceived as difficult.

In the face of the tidal wave of Western imperialist powers entering the world,
How did Korea, China, and Japan resist or comply?
Why must we read world history through the lens of "Korea, China, and Japan"? To observe the tree of Korean history, our own history, we must first see the forest of Eastern history. Without understanding this, we cannot grasp the larger picture of world history.
To understand our country's past and present, and the global situation, we will compare the history of three East Asian countries.

World history up to now has not strayed far from the form of a brief description of the history of Western powers and the surrounding nations and peoples within the global historical flow they created.
However, history is not only about the military and diplomacy of powerful nations, but also about the resistance and identity of weak nations.
This series is an attempt to break away from the traditional Western-centric historical narrative and look at history from our East Asian perspective.
Among them, we will take a closer look at the period from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, when Korea, China, and Japan were most closely connected.


01.
The beginning of the West Sea branch
02.
Typhoon Heaven Rising
03.
Japan's opening
04.
Game of the Continent (Basis)
05.
The game of the archipelago (the basis)…
* Will continue to be published.