If you went to
http://www.streamload.com/secretarytocapt3
and downloaded the zipped file "NakajimaN" (which contains portraits,
Japanese text and translations by the dread babelfish) then you are
missing 3 portraits...momoiro informed me about:
http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Namiki/3799/bekkan/aridousi.html
http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Namiki/3799/bekkan/kikuti.html
http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Namiki/3799/bekkan/kokubo.html
which I couldn't retrieve off the old server
my site
http://1happyturtle.com/makoto/portraits/NN.html
was an unintentional blatant rip off of the Japanese site (which I had
no idea moved servers)...so just take a look at my site...it has some
of the new info on Nakajima N which Miss B gave us a while ago and has
all the pics but no write up on each person. My site also has larger
versions of Nakajima N, Kondou, Hijikata and Saitou's pic I scanned
from my museum catalog. So unfortunatly, I can't give this to SHQ as
the Japanese owner would probably kill me if he/she found this site.
and I spent so much time on it (sob)
OT: ways to TORTURE kendo students
have them hop---yes "hop" with their shinai (downward slash)
doesn't it sound easy and *cute*? We all look like bunny rabbits with
bamboo swords...now do this across the length of an indoor basketball
court (full court not half court)...I promise you that after going
back and forth oh 4 times (you are doing it WRONG if you back is not
perfectly straight during the hop)...you won't look like a bunny
rabbit anymore...just a gasping exhausted frog hugging a bamboo sword
(forget swinging it just hopping will kill you)...now our instructor
says that in no time we will develop a fluid motion...sure
whatever...it's cruel and inhumane!!!! my knees feel like jello