Thanks for the detail on Fujita Tsutomu -M-.
If people want to learn more about Yamakawa Hiroshi they can visit
http://www.shinsengumihq.com/aizu1868yamakawa.html
Yamakawa Hiroshi was also close to Takagi/Fujita Tokio's brother
Morinusuke and was also a co-worker of Tokio's cousin Takamine Hideo
too.
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------INFORMATION------
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The first novel featuring the Shinsengumi to be translated from
Japanese to English was Dai-Bosatsu Toge (multiple spellings on the
name) or GREAT BODHISATTVA PASS by C.S. Bavier
You can learn more here: http://www.shinsengumihq.com/dbt.html
We have a youtube vid that's more like a vlog about the novel at our
account:
http://www.youtube.com/shinsengumihq
----BUT----
78 years later, with Shinsengumi fandom now permanently established
in the WEST...there is yet another NOVEL IN ENGLISH
(for young adults, sorry no Shinsengumi orgy sex scenes T_T)
This is a historical occasion! It was written by the great sage and
unabashed Itou Kashitaro fangirl here on the SHQ ML Chloe Michelle
(psssst it's really Barbara Sheridan)
I give you MIRROR, MIRROR(http://www.chloemichelle.com)
See the trailer here (feature SAitou Hajime fanart)
http://www.youtube.com/chloemichelle301
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Want to learn about the Meiji ERa but don't have the time or books?
Like the history but hate the boring?
Then you NEED
Ono Suzue: A Man of Talent In The Meiji Era
free novel---just contact the email on this page to get a copy
(above 18 readers only please, there is sex/yaoi and mxfxm)
http://silapajarun.1happyturtle.com/
YES! It stars Fujita Goro (I fictionalized him as Fujita Gorou) and
he is completely different than what you've seen in other universes
Please read/comment---I need the love/attention (*^_^*)
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I wanted to take this opportunity to suggest to all fans that
to keep abreast of new Shinsengumi info on the general web that they
start a Google alert
using the term Shinsengumi and Shinsengumihq
http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en
We also have a fun blog here:
http://shinsengumihq.livejournal.com/
--- In SHQ@yahoogroups.com, "--- M." wrote:
>
> Yamakawa Hiroshi, the former Aizu retainer who was a close friend
of Saitou
> Hajime (Fujita Gorou), wrote a poem on the occasion of Goro's son
Tsutomu's
> birth. I can't quite make out the meaning-- it plays off his name
> "tsutomu"-- which means "to work [hard]," and exhorts him to grow
into a
> distinguished man, but I wanted to share it in transliterated form.
>
> Tsutometefu
> Na ni somukasu wa
> yakate yoni
> takaku tsutomu no
> tatasareme ya wa
>
> Found it on http://o.z-z.jp/b/zaneika/log/20.html
>
> -M.
>
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