encyclopedia of japanese history - history buff stuff

techie

SuupaOtaku
Jul 24, 2008
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for the history buffs...

A very nice find in my search for more information.
Next time you watch a Taiga dorama, you can verify whats real and not.

this file was handed out under the "GNU Free Documentation License"
which means "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed."

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Sakunyuusha

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Jan 27, 2008
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Can you explain in more detail what this is or -- since a picture's worth a thousand words -- include two or three screencaps?
 

techie

SuupaOtaku
Jul 24, 2008
568
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Its a PDF compliation of a Open Source Historical encyclopedia for the complete history of Japan, including all ... well hell, its a book in PDF format...
Here is the ToC...

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Table of Contents
Frontmatter........................................................... ......................................5
Abe Family (Mikawa) – Azukizaka, Battle of (1564)..................................11
Baba Family – Buzen Province............................................... ..................37
Chang Tso-lin – Currency............................................... ..........................45
Daido Masashige – Dutch Learning..................................... .....................75
Echigo Province – Etō Shinpei................................................................ ..78
Feminism – Fuwa Mitsuharu................................................... ..................83
Gamō Hideyuki – Gyoki................................................. ...........................88
Habu Yoshiharu – Hyūga Province............................................... ............99
Ibaraki Castle – Izu Province..................................................................118
Japan Communist Party – Jurakutei Castle............................................135
Kaei – Kyūshū Campaign........................................ ...............................139
Lansing, Robert – Lytton.......................................................... ...............178
MacArthur, Douglas – Mutsu Province................................................... .178
Nabeyama Sadachika – Nunobeyama, Battle of.....................................205
Ōan – Ozu Yasujiro............................................. ....................................222
Pacific War – Privy Council.................................................... .................236
(Q: No Entries).................................................................... ....................238
Rangaku – Ryūkyū Province........................................................ ...........238
Sado Province – Suzuki Zenkō.................................................. .............242
Tachibana Muneshige – Twenty-One Demands.....................................271
Uchida Ryohei – Uzen Province.............................................................298
(V: No entries)................................................................................. ........302
Wado Province – Witte, Sergei...............................................................302
(X: No entries)................................................................................. ........305
Yamagata Aritomo – Yūryaku-tennō.................................................. .....305
Zaibatsu – Zeami.................................................... ................................311
Chronological List of Emperors............................................ ...................313
Prime Ministers, 1885 to Present........................................ ....................317
Alphabetical List of the Prefectures........................................................ .320
Provinces and Corresponding Prefectures...................................... ........322
Chronological List of Nengō.......................................................... ..........325
List of the Shōgun....................................................................... ............333
GNU Free Documentation License.........................................................335

I shouldn't say complete... I found nothing about Atsu-Hime in there...