User:LordAmeth/Notes
NOTES for later articles:
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. -- --
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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- Ataka & Kanjincho take place in Komatsu, Ishikawa-ken
- Tsuruya Shôgen 鶴屋将監 - wakô raider
- Kaiin Jôko, a monk from Kyoto who became abbot of Shuri Enkakuji
- Taira Saemonnojô Nobushige 平左衛門尉信重 - Hakata merchant sent by Sho Toku to serve as diplomat to Korea, 1471
- 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.
