NHK's program "Heroes' Choices," which focuses on heroes who made decisions that greatly changed history, will rebroadcast "Hiraga Gennai, the multi-creator who ran through Edo" on NHK BS from 9:00 pm on April 21st as a "selection." The program will feature Hiraga Gennai, who was played by Ken Yasuda Ken in the currently airing taiga drama " UNBOUND (Berabou), " which caused a great stir. We will get closer to the true image of this versatile multi-creator.
Hiraga Gennai was a talk of Edo with his extraordinary talent. He was active in a wide range of fields, including invention, novels, painting, and advertising, but his starting point was botany, or what we would now call natural history. He solicited submissions of rare products from all over the country and produced Japan's first nationwide exposition, but Gennai was a ronin who had run away from his hometown of Takamatsu Domain. He had big dreams, but he always struggled to raise funds and ended up with huge debts.
What is the secret of Hiraga Gennai, the genius who laughed away such poverty and galloped through Edo?
