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. After some various adventures elsewhere in Japan, New York, and elsewhere, he earned a second MA, in Art History, from the University of Hawaii, and is now pursuing a PhD at UC Santa Barbara.
He was really active on Wikipedia for several years, much to the chagrin of the Shogun, but it has now been quite some time since he has done any major contributions over there. Still, if you're interested, 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. The Wiki serves as a great way to take notes, or just to read actively and engagingly, rather than passively.
I am working especially on the Timeline year pages, primarily just because those are some of the quickest and easiest things to do, tossing names and dates in there as they come up in my class readings. This provides links for articles to be created, helping us know what is missing and giving us somewhere to start.
As a student of East Asian Studies, though my interest is very much in Japan, I take courses on China as well, and so will be adding articles, or at least links (e.g. on the year pages) for major Chinese figures and topics, significant enough to have relevance to Japanese topics. I realize this means the project is beginning to extend beyond its scope before the core is anywhere near complete. But, I hope it is not too much of a problem. Yoroshiku, ne.
For 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.
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.