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“Satake clan's exile and castle-building strife; farmer girl Haruna trains in kenjutsu for revenge after tragedy.”
Yuki no Touge, Tsurugi no Mai
雪の峠・剣の舞
6.79
13,277 rank · 815 readers · 2 favorites
Seinen
Historical
Samurai
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Synopsis
Satake clan's exile and castle-building strife; farmer girl Haruna trains in kenjutsu for revenge after tragedy.
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... (Source: Translated from Wikipedia.jp)
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
6.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
67%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 4
σ 1.70
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.70 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.5 pts
Recommenders 7.5 · others 4.0
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 0.67
Running avg · Feb 2015 → Jul 2020
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “This manga is short, so do not expect some crazy character development. Both of the stories it tells are satisfying dramatizations of real historical events. The second story was particularly...”
- 7 “Really enjoying Parasyte -the maxim- I got the idea to check out the other works from the same author in the hope of finding something very good. This one volume contains two independent quite...”
- 4 “I'm a sucker for all things related to the samurai, but this manga left me with a decidedly "meh" impression. You may have read that the samurai came to an end in the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877, but...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 33%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 9 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 12m approx
- Published Jan 1999 – Jan 2000
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M12957 catalog