Goro Shiba, a defeated boy from Aizu at the end of the Edo period who became an army general: looking back on his 85 years of hardship

Massan is a morning drama that aired in the latter half of 2014. But did you know that 24 years earlier, in 1990, there was a drama that depicted the love between a Scottish woman and a Japanese man? "Ginger Tree: A Foreign Woman" (◆NHK Masterpiece Selection) The two meet not in Japan or Scotland, but in Qing Dynasty China. The Japanese officer with whom the heroine falls in love was modelled on Shiba Goro. He attracted international attention …