Story Of The Otokodate Of Yedo is Japanese story about traditional Japanese hero. Otokodate doesn't have a handy English language translation - the anachronistic and unsatisfactory phrase 'street knight' is the commonly used definition and it no longer fits our phraseology nor is it very accurate. Otokodate is an archetype of kabuki more than anything else. In the popular imagination (especially of the nineteenth century) the early...