

Seppuku: Toyo's uncle commits this at the beginning of the story, and he fears his father will do the same.Phenotype Stereotype: Averted in the case of the Americans.Not Afraid of You Anymore: Toyo manages to rally his dormmates against the seniors after days of endless torment and stands up to the snotty kitchen staff.The seniors tormented the first years by first storming down the hallways in only loincloths before charging into a dorm room and beating the crap out the younger ones, then called them 'girls', and set up a bunch of rules restricting what they could do. Gratuitous English / Gratuitous Japanese:Homu Ran, gaijin, bushido, seppuku, Pu-re boru, besuboru.
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Crowning Moment of Awesome: When Ichiko beats Shimbashi team, a team of professional baseball players from America, 29-4.Young Toyo must face bullying seniors, his father's refusal to modernize, and his own inability to cope with his uncle's seppuku, all while finding a way to incorporate his father's bushido (way of the samurai) into his baseball practices and help his school's baseball team rise to the top. Samurai Shortstop by Alan Gratz is a Coming of Age Story focusing on young Toyo Shimada, a first-year at Ichiko High School in the year 1890, around the start of the Meiji period in Japan. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.

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