User:LordAmeth

This User has been personally called a Gaijin on numerous occasions.

This user specializes in the Edo Period.

This user has a college degree in Japanese History.

This user has an Intermediate knowledge of Japanese.

This user has studied in Japan.

LordAmeth (紫水晶殿) is a bit obsessed with Japan, and increasingly with the wider region of East/SE Asia. He finds interest in just about every period or aspect of Japanese history, from the earliest ancient clan conflicts, through the Heian period and the Genpei Wars, the complexities of clan histories and regional histories of the Sengoku period, and into the vivid cultural, political, and economic history of the Edo period, the cultural changes of the Meiji period, and the cultural issues facing Japan today. There is a special place in his heart for Okinawa, though he has yet to visit there.

He studied at Jouchi Daigaku in Tokyo for one term back in '03, and is looking forward to moving to Yokohama at the end of the summer. He's finishing his MA dissertation at the School of Oriental & African Studies (U of London), writing on 17th century relations between the shogunate and Southeast Asian authorities.

He's been really active on Wikipedia for several years, and isn't sure how that will continue in the future as he gets more and more involved here. Please do feel free to check out his user page over there.

He has been active on Samurai Archives since June 2007, and is an editor for the Samurai-Archives Journal of Japanese History.

Interests and Specialties

As the userboxes do not tell all, I am particularly interested in and/or knowledgeable about:

• Pre-Meiji History of Okinawa
• Satsuma han
• Kabuki, Noh, Bunraku
• Ukiyo-e and wider Edo period art
• Gempei War
• Regional histories of individual clans or domains.