Random links to residence of Katsura Kogoro (later renamed Kido Takayoshi):
This was random stumbling while trying to track down the fate of his diaries. I’m frustrated by the disappearance of theses/dissertations into obscurity, particularly when there are so few well written and researched ones in English on Japanese figures from its turbulent era opening to the west. In general as a person who likes studying both Korean and Japanese history and culture, it’s frustrating to see how sparse the material is, particularly when you can easily track down kajillions of pieces of stuff on European history.
Anyways, this is one of those things that I should have bought years ago when the volumes were in circulation and I’d like to still, but have to think about whether it’s realistic to think I’ll ever come back and write up anything Dx. Yeah – I’m still struggling a lot with having loads of academic side projects in Asiana .
More than likely I’m going to blog Korean stuff for a while as I have beautiful pictures to reupload to this site (if only Photoshop.com imported everything into WordPress , but that’s really wishful thinking) and some stories I’d like to talk about, as well as books I”d like to honestly and amateurishly assess. Folklore and fairytales makes more sense it seems as I have been obsessing over those as of late.
So siggggghhhh… poor Meiji era subjects, you’ll have to wait until I have more of a reason to springboard. If all goes well, though, next spring I’ll start blogging about Japan stuff again 
And dang it – I can’t get control over community/LJ crossposting it seems. It’s either one or the other, I believe which I gather makes sense, but unnnnngggggh, WP, you apparently do not understand LJers -_-
