From: kenmlin@aol.com   
      
   "Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:mh1vn3$73m$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 05/23/2013 06:20 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >   
   > HIDAMARI NO KI Manga   
   > 陽だまりの樹; El Árbol que da Sombra; Tezuka's Ancestor Dr. Ryoan; The   
   > Shade-giving Tree; The Tree in the Sunlight   
   > Released:  Author & Artist   Genre(s):   
   > 1981     Tezuka Osamu       Action, Historical, Seinen, Slice Of Life   
   >   
   > Hidamari no Ki is about a friendship between a samurai and a doctor in   
   > the final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.   
   >   
   > It received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1984 for general manga.   
   >   
   >      Only one chapter on Manga Fox and it is excellent so far.   
   >      Thursday, May 23, 2013   
      
      
   Well this is a picaresque historical novel story and we are up   
   chapter 30.  In this one a very significant historical character appears   
   and we are acquainted with the cabal attempting to reform the   
   Shogunate.   
      
   bliss   
      
   >>>>>>>>>>>>   
      
   Some of the characters in this book are based on Tezuka's own ancestors.   
   You can see why Tezuka himself finished medical school.  Black Jack is   
   another of Tezuka's book about a doctor/surgeon that revived his career in   
   1970s.   
      
   If you are into that era of Japan, I thought Sakamoto Ryoma was an   
   interesting historical character and he had a manga about him:   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O~i!_Ryoma   
      
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