Some Minor SHQ updates

[Saitou Info]
Hirotada Tokugawa translated something interesting from the book
Saitou Hajime no Subete (I couldn't access a database which would have
the author's name in English but I will do so later)
and the detail is on this page
http://www.shinsengumihq.com/saitouhajime.htm
please see the chronology at the bottom for the year [1868] and look
for Matsumoto Ryojun issuing a certificate to "Yamaguchi Jiro"
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[Choshu Info]
Please see the link to Hirotada Tokugawa's Wikipedia page under
"More Background Information"
Choshu's Kokuji Shinano
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I still need to set aside a block of time to add to the monstrous and
colorful timeline
http://www.shinsengumihq.com/ShinsengumiBakumatsuTimeline.htm and I
also am currently working on a model for a Shinsengumi book. No I'm
not writing this book but I want to present it publicly as a proposal
anyways to show future authors out there what fans want to know.

I already got some suggestions especially on how to make the index
easy to understand. For example, capitalizing the last names to
prevent confusion and so forth. This is actually a fun project.

If you would like to help please email me at
secretarytocapt3(a)hotmail.com

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[Kyoto Humane Society Warning]
http://www.shinsengumihq.com/MFD.htm

[BBC Bakumatsu Broadcasting Corporation Ikedaya Radio Report]

it is a work of fiction ofcourse (^_^) but we tried to work in some
info or linked to pages which can provide more details --- cases of
stretching the truth are noted--- for example we noted that Hijikata
wasn't a tailor exactly but he did work in a kimono shop when he was
younger
http://www.shinsengumihq.com/MFD.htm

AS ALWAYS WE TAKE SUBMISSIONS---this little skit was a series of
soundclips recorded separately and pasted together so if you have
online friends living several states away or in another country you
can in fact make your OWN Shinsengumi audio skit! And submit it as an
mp3 or wav file.

For example a spoof on Star Wars... "HAN WARS"

Darth Vader ::with trademark labored breathing:: "Luke, I am your
father..."
Luke Skywalker "you ARE?" ::shocked::
Darth Vader "No I am really your third cousin, secretly adopted into
your father's household as his official heir to the male patriarch one
generation older than your father so technically I am your ~grandfather~"
Luke Skywalker "you lost me there"
Darth Vader "That's not important---the point is we will destroy the
Northern Alliance with our Imperial banner and forged edict and search
and destroy the Shinsengumi and capture Princes Leah---ummm I mean
Aizu's Princess Teru"

see it can be as lame and corny as you like---or DRAMATIC---OR you can
get your friends to perform your own fanfic!!!!!
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How to speculate like a professional fangirl

Question: "What are the details of Fujita Goro and Shinoda Yaso's
divorce?"

a) Yaso divorced Goro
b) Goro divorced Yaso
c) they divorced *each *other (like millions of people all over the
world) because they couldn't get along
d) there was a vast Aizu conspiracy to destroy the couple and match
Goro with Tokio, even though the domain had nothing to gain from such
a marriage
e) we don't really know

e) is correct

but you can LEARN MORE YOURSELF by looking at the SAITOU HAJIME
TRANSLATIONS right here at our mailing list "FILES" download all the
docs and read it carefully. The translations are from a Japanese
website---this website was chosen specifically because she used the
texts available regarding Saitou Hajime she even bothered to build a
bibliography at her site. Her speculations are clearly separated
from the historical facts (mostly drawn from the work of Shizuko Akama).

you may also use history to help you speculate for example you may
study divorce and marriage in that era and look at the texts available

http://www.hajimenokizu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=777#777

alot of things will begin to make sense once you understand the
historical context---the more you read the more your speculation will
change over time---to remain static in your opinion when texts point
to a different direction will not help you (unless you are writing a
work of fiction in which case you can write whatever you want).

*Comes lurking out of the shadows*

Re: How to speculate like a professional fangirl by
Secretary.

I was intrigued by the fact that your friends would
argue for an Aizu conspiracy to split up Denpachi and
Yaso. As you stipulated in your previous essay, and I
do agree with you, when Goro married Tokio, Tokio had
lost practically everything, what had he to gain? What
many people don't like about old-fashioned Japanese
love stories (they are thinking from a modern
perspective on such things) is that Japanese love
stories were often of illicit relationships. A man and
his geisha mistress. A lady separated from her true
love to be married to a lord. But infidelity in any
form, I suppose, is not our 'modern' ideal concept of
true love. Japanese people, as in many other countries
back then, did not marry for love, but for
practicality, especially among the samurai classes.
That's not saying that married couples didn't love
each other, but I know, even from my own grandparents'
experiences, that love had little to do with the
actual concept of marriage back then. Even now,
matchmaking (o-miai in Japanese) is common. When I
described my story as old-fashioned Japanese
romanticism, I was taking these factors into account.
*Then again, I may be biased because I have my own
fictional* interpretation of why Tokio was adopted by
the Kurasawa family, and how the eventual marriage of
Goro and Tokio came about and how Yaso fit into the
picture.(Though whether anyone here is actually
following the story, I just don't know.)

*lurks back into the shadows, but with the very best
wishes for all*

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How to speculate like a professional fangirl

Question: "What are the details of Fujita Goro and
Shinoda Yaso's
divorce?"

a) Yaso divorced Goro
b) Goro divorced Yaso
c) they divorced *each *other (like millions of people
all over the
world) because they couldn't get along
d) there was a vast Aizu conspiracy to destroy the
couple and match
Goro with Tokio, even though the domain had nothing to
gain from such
a marriage
e) we don't really know

e) is correct

but you can LEARN MORE YOURSELF by looking at the
SAITOU HAJIME
TRANSLATIONS right here at our mailing list "FILES"
download all the
docs and read it carefully. The translations are from
a Japanese
website---this website was chosen specifically because
she used the
texts available regarding Saitou Hajime she even
bothered to build a
bibliography at her site. Her speculations are
clearly separated
from the historical facts (mostly drawn from the work
of Shizuko Akama).

you may also use history to help you speculate for
example you may
study divorce and marriage in that era and look at the
texts available

http://www.hajimenokizu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=777#777

alot of things will begin to make sense once you
understand the
historical context---the more you read the more your
speculation will
change over time---to remain static in your opinion
when texts point
to a different direction will not help you (unless you
are writing a
work of fiction in which case you can write whatever
you want).







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As part of the newly reorganized Makoto Multimedia Dojo at
http://www.shinsengumihq.com/MFD.htm, there's a new "radio show" in
production now, called "The Kyokuchou Hour." It's hosted by Kondou and
Hijikata, but the other captains (and connected people) appear too. And they
want to hear from you-- so send in your fanmail to patriot014@... ,
and they'll read it on the show!

-M.