There are connections EVERYWHERE....I thought people were following
along. I did mention Shiba Goro on the updated Saitou Hajime
info-sheet. What I will try to follow up it the Saga REbellion in
which Yamakawa Ookura/Taizo/Hiroshi acquitted himself very well and
was promoted in the army...Yamakawa Hiroshi later was chief of staff
in Seinan as you recall. Thanks for summarizing everything
below....these Aizu folks sure stuck together.Don't forget how
Yamakawa Hiroshi wanted to investigate the can clamming business too.
Yamakawa Hiroshi, puts arm around Fujita Goro's shoulder "Hey Goro,
let's say you and me go into the can clamming business---we'll make a
fortune!!!"
Goro "ummm I'll stick with the police work thank you"
And about the clairvoyance testing...I'm STILL pretty peeved at
Yamakawa Kenjiro about 1) messing up the experiment by forgetting to
insert the plate and 2) saying that no mistake occurred in an article
published at a later date...no doubt he was fascinated with the
research (otherwise he wouldn't risk his reputation by involving
himself with Dr. Fukuzawa) but clearly he was too busy covering up his
own error.
I highly recommend people read both Shiba Goro's REMEMBERING AIZU and
the biography of Yamakawa Sutematsu....completes the "picture"
perfectly and both books are EXTREMELY affordable...I got the
Sutematsu book for under $5.000 the information is INCREDIBLE!!!!!
--- In SHQ@yahoogroups.com, "warg3791" wrote:
>
> Forgot until I glanced at the SHQ website that Yamakawa Hiroshi, one
> of the go-betweens for Fujita Goro's marriage to Takagi Tokio, and
> Yamakawa Okura were one and the same. Remembering Aizu talkes about
> him mostly under the name Okura. Shiba Goro knew him as well, after
> he left Shimokita and went to Tokyo. He stayed with Yamakawa a couple
> of times when he had no where else to go, despite the fact that the
> former domain elder was jobless and broke. Yamakawa and his mother
> ended up borrowing 13 yen and 50 sen from Shiba in fact. You reminded
> me of his Fujita connection, but not that he was in Remembering Aizu
> the other day.
>
> And why didn't you remind me about that little scandal he was
> involved in back in Shimokita? Where he was buying up all the dregs
> from the tofu dealer and the samurai confronted him about it? HM? LOL
>
> Book specifically mentions his younger brother Kenjiro and Tokio's
> cousin, Takamine Hideo, on pg 133. Didn't realize that. Was the part
> about them being survivors of the Byakkotai.
>
> Now how I missed -this- I don't know...
> Sagawa "Ogre" Kanbei fought in Kyoshu as the head of a plice unit
> made up of 150 former Aizu samurai. (Knew that) To the end he refused
> to use a modern weapon and was shot and killed at Mount Aso. ?!?! How
> did I NOT see that before?! I'm guessing this was in 1878 Sec?
>
> And does anyone know if Hirosawa Tomijiro (liaison for Aizu with the
> Shinsengumi) and Hirosawa Yasuto (who had the first western-style
> dairy farm) were one and the same? I recall seeing information from a
> website that M translated for us that said Tomijiro was the owner of
> this place. But Remembering Aizu mentions his first name is Yasuto?
> Did he change his name or was the website mistaken?
>
> -MissB