[Shinsengumi Books]
Shogun's Most Dreaded Samurai Corps: The Bloody Legacy Of The
Shinsengumi by Romulus Hillsborough
-still- not yet released (-_-)
[Recommended Books]
Drunk as a Lord by Ryotaro Shiba (starring ALL our Ishin Friends!!!)
The Last Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu by Ryotaro Shiba
[Fujita Family Connections--finished]
http://www.shinsengumihq.com/Fujitaconnections.jpg
[Shinsengumihq.com]
http://www.shinsengumihq.com/WB.htm
please see more information on Yamamoto Yaeko
here are pictures of Yamamoto Yaeko and her husband, Joseph Hardy
Neesima, in the Meiji Era
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/tnamwong/web/NeesimaYY.zip
(Note: the picture of the girls practicing the naginata)
[for people interested in TAKAGI TOKIO]
Well, she didn't leave a diary...but during the exact same years she
worked at Tokyo Women's Normal School (the name of the school
changes a few times-presently Ochanomizu) we DO know that the girls
dressed like this...
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/tnamwong/web/TWNOchanomizu2.zip
pic#1 is of the first graduating class (which means Fujita Midori -
daughter in law to Tokio+Goro is in the pic)
Pic #2 + #3 are of students in uniform, they are NOT Japanese they
are in fact Thai/Siamese girls sent to study at the school for 6
years!
Tokyo Women's Normal School was a model or template for teacher and
women's education. It was overseen by Takamine Hideo a very
progressive reformer and Tokio's cousin.
[Recommended Websites/Files]
http://www.d9.dion.ne.jp/~senaun/pageBT11.html
insert the page into
http://www.nifty.com/globalgate
for all you sword collectors, also sells very rare and informative
books
http://www.wmhawley.com/
THE AMERICAN SAMURAI
Boshin War + Aizu connection (Kenjutsu to FENCING!)
http://www.worldoyama.com/Download/WOK_NL_Fal2003.pdf