LordAmeth
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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.
He studied at Jouchi Daigaku in Tokyo for one term back in '03, and completed his MA at the School of Oriental & African Studies (U of London), writing on 17th century relations between the shogunate and Southeast Asian authorities. He then lived in Yokohama for a year, devoting the vast majority of his waking hours to improving his Japanese language skills. He is now back home in NY, working for the Japan Society and preparing for a return to grad school in the fall, this time at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
He has been really active on Wikipedia for several years, and will likely continue to be, to the chagrin of the Shogun. (Moushiwake nai, ne.) Please do feel free to check out his user page over there.
He first became active on Samurai Archives in June 2007, though he took quite some time off from it, returning in February 2009. He is not sure how active he will be, however.
If you are interested in seeing larger versions of images used on the S-A Wiki, any photos LordAmeth has taken himself can be found at his Flickr page.
Interests and Specialties
As the userboxes do not tell all, I am particularly interested in and/or knowledgeable about:
- History of Okinawa
- Satsuma han
- Kabuki, Noh, Bunraku
- Ukiyo-e and wider Edo period art
- Regional histories of individual clans or domains.
Projects
Ameth is going to work on creating articles for the above major topics he works on, and will then attempt to convince himself to work from various lists of requested articles, stubs, etc. already posted on S-A rather than going off in his own direction.
Though there are a great many central and major topics not covered, he also feels that there are subjects like those relating to the Kingdom of Ryukyu which will never get covered if he doesn't do it, so please do not mind him if he does after all go off on some random direction.
He has been working to flesh out the Timeline pages as well, primarily because it's quick easy work. His dates and events come almost exclusively from 「新詳日本史」, published by 浜島書店, though the source is not cited on the Timeline pages. If any event seems suspicious, please do not hesitate to call him out on a mistranslation; he's far from fluent, and still working on it.
In addition, he is copying and pasting from Wikipedia those articles which are purely his own work. He will sometimes, if something's not covered on Wikipedia, write a new article and post it on both Wikis.
Articles to Create
A list of articles he has contributed to extensively on Samurai Archives can be found here.