1. Ishikawa Goemon was the leader of a group of bandits during the Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan.
10 Facts About Ishikawa Goemon
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Ishikawa Goemon was forced to flee when his master discovered Sanada's romance with one of his mistresses.
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Ishikawa Goemon then moved to the neighbouring Kansai region, where he formed and led a band of thieves and bandits as Ishikawa Goemon, robbing the rich feudal lords, merchants and clerics, and sharing the loot with the oppressed peasants.
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Ishikawa Goemon is the subject of many classic kabuki plays.
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The most famous act is "Sanmon Gosan no Kiri" in which Ishikawa Goemon is first seen sitting on top of the Sanmon gate at Nanzen-ji.
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Ishikawa Goemon soon learns that his father, a Chinese man named So Sokei, was killed by Mashiba Hisayoshi and he sets off to avenge his father's death.
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Ishikawa Goemon appears in some versions of the famous Tale of the Forty-Seven Ronin.
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In 1992, Ishikawa Goemon appeared in the kabuki series of Japanese postage stamps.
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Ishikawa Goemon is a villain in Torawakamaru the Koga Ninja, and a tragic antagonist in Fukuro no Shiro.
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Ishikawa Goemon is the subject of the Shinobi no Mono novels and film series, starring Ichikawa Raizo VIII as Goemon in the first three installments.