Shimotsuki Village

Shimotsuki Village is a village in East Blue and Roronoa Zoro's homeland. It was founded by pirates, around 55 years ago.
The village was named after Shimotsuki Kouzaburou, a member of the Shimotsuki Family from Wano Country and one of the village's aforementioned founders.
==Layout and Locations==
===Isshin Dojo===
 is a kenjutsu school, a school of Japanese swordsmanship. Its owner is Koushirou, who is a skilled swordsman and father of the deceased Kuina. It is the place where Zoro trained his Three Sword Style and in the anime is the only dojo Zoro did not take down the sign of.
It is revealed that 12 years before the current storyline, the town was visited by Monkey D. Dragon and the revolutionaries, and that the dojo assisted them with supplies for the injured residents of the Gray Terminal.
==Citizens==
==Culture and Geography==
The village looks like a typical rural village in East Blue with green grass and mountains all around the village. The village also seems to have a lot of rice fields.
The village culture seems to be based on feudal Japan and their customs, much similar to Wano Country. The people here are also shown to be Buddhists.
==History==
55 years ago, Shimotsuki Kouzaburou left Wano, and ended up in East Blue, where he saved the village from bandits. He eventually settled down there and started a family, having trained the villagers in swordsmanship as well.
==Translation and Dub Issues==
The VIZ Manga translated the name "Shimotsuki" into "Frost Moon" when the village was first named in the manga. Thus, when the Shimotsuki Family name was revealed over a decade later, the connection was not made apparent. In later instances, when the connection to Shimotsuki Kouzaburou is relevant, both names are listed; either "Frost Moon (Shimotsuki) Village" or "Shimotsuki (Frost-Moon) Village".
==Trivia==
*Shimotsuki Village was inspired by the Japanese city of Nara.
*The founding of Shimotsuki Village is very likely based on the famous Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai, in which the titular seven samurai train a group of farmers to combat bandits.
*Shimotsuki is the traditional name of the month of November in the Japanese calendar.
*The village's dojo was initially called in the Weekly Shonen Jump release of Chapter 1033, despite previously being named "Isshin Dojo" in One Piece Yellow: Grand Elements. This was corrected in the Volume 102 version of the chapter, where the dojo is called "Isshin Dojo".
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