are Japanese women history buffs, who also may use the speech and mannerisms of pre-industrial Japan in their social gatherings. Reki-jo are a kind of otaku

Otaku

is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga or video games.- Etymology :Otaku is derived from a Japanese term for another's house or family , which is also used as an honorific second-person pronoun...

, people obsessed with a particular interest. Economic activity relating to the fad

FAD

In biochemistry, flavin adenine dinucleotide is a redox cofactor involved in several important reactions in metabolism. FAD can exist in two different redox states, which it converts between by accepting or donating electrons. The molecule consists of a riboflavin moiety bound to the phosphate...

 generates US$725 million per year.

Etymology

Reki-jo is a contraction of .

Persons of interest

The Shinsengumi

Shinsengumi

The were a special police force of the late shogunate period.-Historical background:After Japan opened up to the West following U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's visits in 1853, its political situation gradually became more and more chaotic...

 are a common interest of reki-jo.
Other historical figures commonly of interest to reki-jo include:

• Date Masamune
  Date Masamune
  was a regional strongman of Japan's Azuchi-Momoyama period through early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful daimyo in the Tōhoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai...
  
  
• Sanada Yukimura
  Sanada Yukimura
  was a Japanese samurai, second son of the Sengoku period daimyo Sanada Masayuki . His proper name was Sanada Nobushige , named after Takeda Shingen's younger brother Takeda Nobushige, who was a brave and respected warrior. He and his father were known as being excellent military tacticians...
  
  
• Ishida Mitsunari
  Ishida Mitsunari
  Ishida Mitsunari was a samurai who led the Western army in the Battle of Sekigahara following the Azuchi-Momoyama period of the 17th century. Also known by his court title, Jibunoshō...
  
  
• Naoe Kanetsugu
  Naoe Kanetsugu
  was a Japanese samurai of the 16th-17th centuries. The eldest son of Higuchi Kanetoyo, Kanetsugu was famed for his service to two generations of the Uesugi daimyo. He was also known by his court title, Yamashiro no Kami or his childhood/adolescent name, Higuchi Kanetsugu .Kanetsugu served first as...
  
  
• Sakamoto Ryōma
  Sakamoto Ryoma
  was a leader of the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate during the Bakumatsu period in Japan. Ryōma used the alias .- Early life :Ryōma was born in Kōchi, of Tosa han . By the Japanese calendar, this was the sixth year of Tenpō...
  
  
• Hijikata Toshizō
  Hijikata Toshizo
  was the vice-commander of Shinsengumi, a great swordsman and a talented Japanese military leader who resisted the Meiji Restoration.-Background:...
  
  
• Iwamoto Tetsuzō
  Tetsuzō Iwamoto
  Sub-Lieutenant Tetsuzō Iwamoto was one of the top scoring fighter aces of the Empire of Japan, during World War II. His total of confirmed claims is believed to be about 80....
  
  

Notable reki-jo

Model Anne Watanabe

Anne Watanabe

is a Japanese fashion model, actress and singer. She is the daughter of film actor Ken Watanabe. In her modeling work, she is known by the mononym Anne....

, daughter of actor Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best...

, is a notable reki-jo.

External links

• “Reki-jo” or “History Girls”