The Shade-Giving Tree

The Tree in the Sunlight

Hidamari no Ki • A Tree in the Sun • El Árbol que da Sombra • Il Bisturi e la Spada • 陽だまりの樹 • Tezuka's Ancestor Dr. Ryoan

SuggestiveViolence or Gore

Origination: Manga

Demographic: Seinen

Published: 1981

Status: 📗 Completed

Translation: 📗 Completed

Anime:

Final Chapter: Volume 11, Chapter 64

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Edo, 1855, in the Hill of the Three Hundred district: Japan's isolationist foreign policy has been lifted, and the era of the Bakumatsu has begun.
The samurai Ibuya Manjiro, 26 years old, has just begun his career as low-ranking retainer to the minor daimyo Lord Matsudaira.
Tezuka Ryoan, 29, a disciple of Dutch medicine, has just been accepted as a student at Teki Academy in Osaka.
Each has a temper to go with his talent, and in a time of brewing upheaval the two are not slow to find trouble, which brings them together in spite of their mutual dislike.

(from: MU)

Won the 29th Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga in 1984

Volumes 326-336 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works

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Authors:	Tezuka Osamu
Artists:	Tezuka Osamu
Genres:	Action, Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Historical, Medical, Psychological, Romance, Slice of Life, Tragedy, Gore, Sexual Violence, Crime, Philosophical, Thriller
Theme:	Delinquents, Military, Samurai
Format:	Award Winning
Publishers:	Shogakukan, Kodansha
Anime:	Start:Vol 1, Chap 1 End:Vol 11 Some arcs and characters are skipped