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Somewhere I read he was 5'3"...but...can anyone verify this?

Heart of Sword wrote:Somewhere I read he was 5'3"...but...can anyone verify this?

I can only tell you he was supposed to be below average in height. The historical individual he was based on was short and fair faced, frequently disguising himself as a woman to carry out his assassinations.

Oh goodness no, disguising himself as a woman?!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Orrooooooo

heh heh, if its 5 foot 3 then he's the same height as me... yay i'm the same height as kenshin!!

You're 21 and 5'3''? Hahhahahahhaha! No, just kidding. Really. I just am glad that I met the 5'5'' or 6'' mark. My family is tall. I'm a shorty. Anyway....
Not to echo HOS, but whoa! Whoda thought.
OF course the real one didn't have red hair, right? *goes off to look for a picture*

Oh my gosh! He would look like a dwarf next to me, and I'm not even a tall girl!

Yeah the man he's based off of was short and skinny.

Perhaps he's a dwarf, you never know.....

But my guess is about he's umm.... about 5'3" to 5'5" as well. I mean he's not really tall by any means. I mean he's shorter then Saitoh, Sano and Shinamori. They all seem about 6 feet tall or a bit shorter.

AnimeHeretic wrote:I can only tell you he was supposed to be below average in height. The historical individual he was based on was short and fair faced, frequently disguising himself as a woman to carry out his assassinations.

: o Who was he based on?

Heart of Sword wrote:Oh goodness no, disguising himself as a woman?!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Orrooooooo

>.>;;;; Uh.. you okay?

I'm guessing that he's about five feet tall. I know I read his height somewhere. probably somwhere on kenshin.gamesurf.it or some site like that. I'll check on it

From everything I read I believe Kenshin is 5`3". After looking up some stuff on google, there is mentioning of him being "short", "not very tall", etc. But not an exact height. Meh~

@HeartofSword: "Kawakami Gensai, one of the four great Hitokiri of the Bakumatsu, could be mistaken for a girl at first glance..."
@Sunako: "The character of Himura Kenshin was based on a real person named Kawakami Gensai."

(Just look up "Kawakami Gensai" or "Ishin Shishi" on google for further information.)

You're 21 and 5'3''? Hahhahahahhaha! No, just kidding. Really

lol. I may be 21 but am short and i only weigh 8 stone (about 112 lbs.. i think is lbs anyway, )

i also constantly get mistaken for someone younger.

Kawakami Gensai, one of the four great Hitokiri of the Bakumatsu, could be mistaken for a girl at first glance...

That's not that hard to picture... its like all those popular jrockers. DD

Well, average height for the day was around 5'6" or so, and look how tall Sanosuke is. He must be like 6'2" or something...

AnimeGirlX wrote:From everything I read I believe Kenshin is 5`3". After looking up some stuff on google, there is mentioning of him being "short", "not very tall", etc. But not an exact height. Meh~

@HeartofSword: "Kawakami Gensai, one of the four great Hitokiri of the Bakumatsu, could be mistaken for a girl at first glance..."
@Sunako: "The character of Himura Kenshin was based on a real person named Kawakami Gensai."

(Just look up "Kawakami Gensai" or "Ishin Shishi" on google for further information.)

http://www.detarver.com/Kawakami%20Gensai.htm


http://www.baka-gaijin.net/

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Dojo/8681/char_ken_gumi.html

http://www.bakaneko.com/anime/kenshin/char01.htm

lol. I may be 21 but am short and i only weigh 8 stone (about 112 lbs.. i think is lbs anyway, )

i also constantly get mistaken for someone younger.

I'm fourteen, about 5'7", and i shave, so I'm constanly being mistaken for being older than i really am!

I checked on the site I mentioned and i couldn't find his hight. sorry

CobaltAngel wrote:That's not that hard to picture... its like all those popular jrockers. DD

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!....

Anyway, Japanese girls find girly men attractive... I write it off as a cultural thing and call it a day...

I recall correctly, Kenshin is supposed to be 5'3".

Oh wait, it's 5'2"

Sano seems like a giant compared to many of the other characters, and he's only 5'10". (My height)

AnimeGirlX wrote:@Sunako: "The character of Himura Kenshin was based on a real person named Kawakami Gensai."

(Just look up "Kawakami Gensai" or "Ishin Shishi" on google for further information.)

Ah, thanks~ X3

AnimeGirlX wrote:From everything I read I believe Kenshin is 5`3". After looking up some stuff on google, there is mentioning of him being "short", "not very tall", etc. But not an exact height. Meh~

@HeartofSword: "Kawakami Gensai, one of the four great Hitokiri of the Bakumatsu, could be mistaken for a girl at first glance..."
@Sunako: "The character of Himura Kenshin was based on a real person named Kawakami Gensai."

(Just look up "Kawakami Gensai" or "Ishin Shishi" on google for further information.)

Interesting that the "real" Kenshin got executed not too long after the revolution.

Actually I thought it was pretty interesting that the manga author admitted he didn't know much at all about the era.

Five-Two? Oh wait, I think i did know that! Where did this 5'3'' come from? By the way, this thread started after me and HOS had a little "discussion" about this certain topic.

AnimeHeretic, the funny thing is, the manga is where I get my Japanese culture and history from!!! I really am clueless, 'cause now I remember him saying that, too. I just seem to selectively forget or something.
Oro? What was going on? I never said that! You can vouch me on that!(whatever that means)