--- In SHQ@yahoogroups.com, "secretary"wrote:
>
> :: pokes list ::
> Anyone still here?
>
> The following was x-posted to
> http://community.livejournal.com/edo_meiji/76637.html
> you'd have to join the community and login
>
> Part1
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1FJIN1R4 (alternate
> http://download.yousendit.com/BEF37F627194D440 )
>
> Part 2
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LGXC2GEE (alternate
> http://download.yousendit.com/A9940F48406B0A72 )
>
> contain 2 images of the Ministry of Justice during the Meiji Era
>
> Now you may think to yourself what does the Min. of Justice have
> anything to do with the Shinsengumi?
>
> Well former members of the Shinsengumi Fujita Goro and also Suzuki
> Miki (even if he was not posted in Tokyo) knew these buildings very
> well. Trainings/meetings were often not held at the local
> station---but at the central admin building, the Ministry of Justice
> and or the TMPD headquarters because the Min. of Justice was the
> "paperwork" center where alot of stuff was sent to for processing.
>
> Other buildings in the files such as the Panorama structure, kabukiza
> and sumo ring are one of the most popular places depicted in ukiyo-e
> of that era as well.
>