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22 Jul, 18 tweets, 6 min read
An audio and text update! #GreyDawn is going to be an #audiobook, cooking streams are within reach, physical rewards are coming, and more, and I need your help to do it. Find out how: patreon.com/posts/53969453 #writerslift #twitterstorians #NorthStarForever
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23 Jul
A friend shared this elsewhere along with a long series of similar memes riffing on the "Samurai sends a fax to Lincoln" thing. And it's funny, because this meme is closer to the truth than you might imagine.

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Say hello to the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867, in which a Japanese delegation, headed by Tokugawa Yoshinobu's brother Akitake, ALSO attended! bie-paris.org/site/en/1867-p…
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23 Jul
#FridayNightHistory Episode 29! "The Mantle of Hiraizumi." Here we go, kids!

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23 Jul
A full #thread (my translation) of the Treaty by which the Northern Alliance of 1868 was formed.

"The domains of Mutsu and Dewa, presently gathered at council in Sendai domain,
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"Having cultivated this covenant, we desire to follow the path of fairness and justice, to engage in unanimous cooperation, to revere the imperial court above and comfort the people below, and by preserving the imperial land, to set His Majesty's heart at ease..."
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ITEM: Extending great justice to all the country as our goal, we shall
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ITEM: As though traveling across the sea in the same boat, we will be
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22 Jul
Mentioned yesterday: this is Hayashi Tadataka, The Last Daimyo, in his younger years at the outset of the #BoshinWar. Note the western-style shell jacket under his Japanese overcoat, and the crested riding cap resting at his knee. The crest is a mitsudomoe surmounting a "1" ImageImage
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In return, when the Hayashi became Tokugawa vassals, they received the right-- at the New Year's festivities-- to receive the first cup of sake from their lord. First cup, ergo, "1," ergo this very unique twist on the ubiquitous mitsudomoe.
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21 Jul
"Did the silent god speak, in that stillness?
I strained to listen, but he wasn't there."

On growing up in the shadow of war and a distant god, reclaiming lost things, and the memory of a forest. "Forest Full of Mines" is up:
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@KarlieChronicle, this might be of interest to you.
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SALUTATIONS you fantastic denizens of the internet! The first #FridayNightHistory of 2021 is here! This week, a new mystery: the true name of "John Williams," Japanese Veteran of the American Civil War.

Yeah, you heard right. And he's not the only one, either.
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