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As a rule, foreign women were not allowed on Dejima. The only women allowed to go there were courtesans from the Maruyama brothel. Officially, the yûjo had to leave the following morning, but in practice they were permitted to stay for a week. However, by the end of the Edo period in the early nineteenth century, enforcement of the restriction had become so lax that Captains were able to take yûjo onto the streets outside Dejima, or even smuggle courtesans to Shanghai in their ships. It was not only foreigners, but also the Japanese who enjoyed the company of the yûjo when they took a trip to Nagasaki from Edo or Kyoto. Maruyama was an oasis in the desert for the Dutch and Chinese who were otherwise confined to their restricted locations.

Johnson, Hiroko. Western Influences on Japanese Art: The Akita Ranga Art School and Foreign Books. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005. p22.

p23 for details on Dejima. --

The shogunal falconry grounds fell out of use around 1700 or 1715; that is, no hunting took place there afterwards. But the grounds remained protected - peasants remained forbidden from hunting, or shooting, there. (David Howell. "The Social Life of Firearms." p78)

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Katsushika Oi did not exclusively paint paintings and not produce any prints. In 1835, Hokusai considered having her do the preparatory sketches for a series of Hyakunin Isshu prints, but ended up doing them himself. In 1829, she had had her own Hyakunin Isshu series published, entitled 千歳百人一首倭寿 (Senzai Hyakunin Isshu Yamato Kotobuki). - Ewa Machotka, "Visual Genesis of Japanese National Identity" p18

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Lane p311 for pigments

"As the early Yoshiwara was primarily a place of entertainment and socializing, sex was a discreet and secondary aspect of the business. Indeed, Edward Seidensticker has gone so far as to liken an evening at the Yoshiwara to an afternoon of tea." - Seigle. p152.

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Tim Clark's article on Kabuki, for bios of Nakamura Nakazo I, Yanagisawa Nobutoki, and other good stuff.

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Look into writing an article for Zhu Shunsui 朱舜水 (1600-82), who fled to Japan rather than be ruled by Manchus.

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Many Okinawans served as police, teachers, or otherwise were involved in colonial Taiwan. These people, who had only just "become" "Japanese" a few decades earlier, and who spoke pidgin or creole Japanese, were now the representatives of the Empire, teaching Japanese language, culture, attitudes, civics, to the "colonized" Taiwanese. - Mashiko Hidenori, "The Creation of 'Okinawans' and Formation of the Japanese Nation-State," Social Science Japan 14 (1998), 12.

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• Ataka & Kanjincho take place in Komatsu, Ishikawa-ken
• The distinctive green, brown, black striped kabuki curtain is said to have originated when Iemitsu donated a ship's sail to the Nakamura-za as a reward for service, the pattern being adopted by other theatres in the Meiji period. - Omoto, Lisa Ann M. and Kathy Welch. "Kabuki Spectacle." in 101 Years of Kabuki in Hawai'i. pp50-54.

• Tsuruya Shôgen 鶴屋将監 - wakô raider
• Kaiin Jôko, a monk from Kyoto who became abbot of Shuri Enkakuji
• Mie and Yarazamui gusuku lasted until the pre-war, and can be seen in a photo from Meiji 24. - Uezato Takashi. Fireweapons of Ryukyu. p86. More on the castle too.
• Hachisuka clan were not samurai!? but were merchants, arms merchants.
• Gusuku article needs expansion, from articles, from Kerr, etc. - currently cites only Kitahara

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Regions of the Ryukyus were referred to by poetic placenames using the word for "mountain." Prior to the unification of the island, Okinawa itself was divided into Hokuzan, Chûzan, and Nanzan. The distant Miyako and Ishigaki Islands were referred to as Taiheizan 太平山, Iheya and Izena, just west of Okinawa, were referred to as Yôhekizan 葉壁山, and the Kerama Islands were called Bashizan 馬歯山. - Kitahara Shûichi. A Journey to the Ryukyu Gusuku 琉球城紀行。 Naha: Miura Creative, 2003. p84.

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"The magistrate offices of North and South Edo, which took turns overseeing city administration, from fire prevention and publishing activities [i.e. censorship], to the adjudication of civil suits, operated with a staff of about 500 samurai officers. Of this number, only 24 were assigned to 'patrol duties' resembling the function of a modern police officer." - Ikegami Eiko, Bonds of Civility, p307.

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Styles of short lyric songs accompanied on shamisen, popular in the licensed quarters, included kouta, hauta, utazawa, dodoitsu, and zokkyoku. Kouta remains a prominent element of the geisha musical repertoire. Kouta, which formed the basis of kabuki music before the advent of nagauta, along with hauta, were later incorporated into nagauta, joruri, folk, and popular music. - *McQueen Tokita, Alison. "Music in kabuki: more than meets the eye." The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. p248.

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Meiji education: by 1890, there were 28,000 timber-floored schools in Japan with sash windows and hinged doors. -William Coaldrake. Architecture and Authority in Japan. p210.

roughly 3000 oyatoi gaikokujin came to Meiji Japan at the invitiation of the government. By far the most of them were employed by the Ministry of Education, and were specialists in engineering and architecture. -Coaldrake. p216.

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The (a?) Date clan mansion in Edo was located at Shiodome 汐留. (Ryukyu shisetsu, Edo he iku!. Okinawa Prefectural Museum. p36.)

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It is believed that over two thousand travel accounts were composed in the Edo period, including more than sixty relating to the island of Ezo. -- Plutschow Edo Period Travel Reader, p2

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Pigs were raised in a certain area just outside of Nagasaki. Nagasaki was the only place in Edo pd Japan that meat was eaten, with the exceptions of medical purposes, fowl, game animals such as bear, boar, and deer, and of course fish. - Plutschow, Edo Period Travel Reader, p47.

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Over 11,000 terakoya were established in the Edo period. - Arts of the Bedchamber exhibition website. Honolulu Museum of Art. (http://shunga.honolulumuseum.org/index.php?page=1)

As the Edo period (1615-1868) progressed, the cleats of a courtesans’ clogs grew in height and their kimono became increasingly heavy, making the choreographed “figure-eight” walk they were required to perform extremely challenging. Occasionally, a courtesan would stumble and fall during a procession, in which case she would be required to retreat to the nearest teahouse, send her attendant home for a new set of clothes, change into the new outfit, donate her previous outfit to the teahouse, and later pay the teahouse staff an additional fee for their assistance. For courtesans whose daily income was unpredictable and who were struggling to meet expenses for their shinzō, kamuro, and themselves, the mere possibility of such an accident must have been a source of intense anxiety. - Arts of the Bedchamber exhibit website

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Pottery and porcelain first introduced to Okinawa in Gusuku period. - okinawa bijutsu zenshu, vol 5, p39?