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EDIT- Ahh, I see you went back into the article and changed the dates! Thanks! Just one thing though-from a stylistic point of view, writing dates as the "seventh day of the fifth month" is kind of awkward. It triggers a recording of Orson Welles in my brain's audio files doing the narrative voice over for Clavell's Shogun mini series. Could we just say "May 7"? I mean it is great to have old Orson do the reading of the article in my head and all, but...--[[User:Obenjo Kusanosuke|Obenjo Kusanosuke]] 20:34, 2 October 2007 (PDT)
EDIT- Ahh, I see you went back into the article and changed the dates! Thanks! Just one thing though-from a stylistic point of view, writing dates as the "seventh day of the fifth month" is kind of awkward. It triggers a recording of Orson Welles in my brain's audio files doing the narrative voice over for Clavell's Shogun mini series. Could we just say "May 7"? I mean it is great to have old Orson do the reading of the article in my head and all, but...--[[User:Obenjo Kusanosuke|Obenjo Kusanosuke]] 20:34, 2 October 2007 (PDT)
I think I can make some good sense out of his quote. He wants to put all dates in Gregorian. So when he had a Japanese date he used Bramsen to convert, and when he wrote something based on Cocks he converted by adding ten days. That seems to be fine.
In the 1615 dates (the 1614 dates are OK), though, I doubt that he got battle dates from Cocks, especially seeing that he is just 1 day off. Of course Bramsen, whom I have never heard of, may have made a mistake that year, but the problem may be Turnbull. Of course it could be me, but I used both the Nengo Calc and good tables, and I was being careful.
The Wiki policy is to use Japanese dates in general and Western if there is a reason. So the Japanese dates are necessary and the Western are optional here. I myself don't see any necessity for Western dates, though maybe you could leave it (in parentheses) for the battle of Tennoji.
PS.I see you have added material.
If you look at the articles, in general month names are reserved for Western dates, so "May 7" out. Normally 5/7 is used (see example in first paragraph). I used the long form because I wanted to change the style as little as possible. But if you delete the western dates all-together, then 5/7, 12/9, etc. would probably be fine. --[[User:Bethetsu|Bethetsu]] 21:04, 2 October 2007 (PDT)