新撰組

Japanese

Kanji in this term
新	撰	組
しん Grade: 2	せん Jinmeiyō	くみ > ぐみ Grade: 2
kan'on		kun'yomi

Noun

新(しん)撰(せん)組(ぐみ) • (Shinsengumi) 

1. Alternative spelling of 新選組 (Shinsengumi): a special police force organized by the shogunate during the Bakumatsu period
   • 2000 April 19 [1995 October 9], Nobuhiro Watsuki, “第(だい)五(ご)十(じゅう)五(ご)幕(まく)　「大(おお)久(く)保(ぼ)利(とし)通(みち)の依(い)頼(らい)」 [Act 55: “Ōkubo Toshimichi’s Request”]”, in るろうに剣(けん)心(しん)　—明(めい)治(じ)剣(けん)客(かく)浪(ろ)漫(まん)譚(たん)— [Rurōni Kenshin —Ballad of a Meiji Swordsroamer—], 24th edition, volume 7 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 165:

     狼(おおかみ)は狼(おおかみ)　新(しん)撰(せん)組(ぐみ)は新(しん)撰(せん)組(ぐみ)　そして　人(ひと)斬(き)りは人(ひと)斬(き)り　なあ　抜(ばっ)刀(とう)斎(さい)

     Ōkami wa ōkami. Shinsengumi wa Shinsengumi. Soshite, hitokiri wa hitokiri. Nā, Battōsai?

     Once a wolf, always a wolf. Once Shinsengumi, always Shinsengumi. And once a manslayer, always a manslayer. Ain’t that right, Battōsai?