User:LordAmeth/Sources

Books

 * Atwood, Roger. Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.
 * Benfey, Christopher. The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan. New York: Random House Publishers, 2003.
 * Brooks, Lester. Behind Japan's Surrender: The Secret Struggle That Ended an Empire. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968.
 * Clark, Mitchell. Sounds of the Silk Road: Musical Instruments of Asia. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Publications, 2005.
 * Coedes, G. The Making of South-east Asia. London: Cox & Wyman Ltd., 1962.
 * Davis, Paul K. 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
 * DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: JAPAN. London: DK Publishing Inc., 2002.
 * Dower, John W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.
 * Fodor's Exploring Japan. London: New York. Fourth Edition, 2003.
 * Frederic, Louis. "Article Name." Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002.
 * Hando, Kazutoshi and the Pacific War Research Society. "Japan's Longest Day." New York: Ballantine Books, 1968.
 * Kerr, George H. Okinawa: the History of an Island People. (revised ed.) Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2000.
 * Lane, Richard. Images of the Floating World. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 1978.
 * McDougall, Walter. Let the Sea Make a Noise: Four Hundred Years of Cataclysm, Conquest, War and Folly in the North Pacific. New York: Avon Books, 1993.
 * Morse, Anne Nishimura et al. Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690-1850. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2007.
 * Munsterberg, Hugo. The Arts of Japan: An Illustrated History. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1957.
 * Paine, Robert Treat and Alexander Soper. The Art and Architecture of Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955.
 * Ratti, Oscar and Adele Westbrook. Secrets of the Samurai. Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1973.
 * Sansom, George. A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1958.
 * Sansom, George. A History of Japan: 1334-1615. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1961.
 * Sansom, George. A History of Japan: 1615-1867. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1963.
 * Sansom, George. Japan: A short cultural history. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1962.
 * Spector, Ronald. Eagle Against the Sun. New York: Vintage Books, 1985.
 * Stanley-Baker, Joan. Japanese Art. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1984.
 * Tokayer, Rabbi Marvin. The Fugu Plan. New York: Weatherhill, Inc., 1979.
 * Turnbull, Stephen. Samurai Armies 1550-1615. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, Ltd., 1979.
 * Turnbull, Stephen. The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & Co., 1998.
 * Turnbull, Stephen. Fighting Ships of the Far East (1): China and Southeast Asia 202 BC - AD 1419. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2002.
 * Turnbull, Stephen. War in Japan: 1467-1615. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2002.
 * Turnbull, Stephen. Ninja: AD 1460-1650 Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2003.
 * Turnbull, Stephen. Japanese Castles 1540-1640. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2003.
 * Turnbull, Stephen. Japanese Warrior Monks AD 949-1603. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2003.
 * Turnbull, Stephen. Japanese Fortified Temples and Monasteries AD 710-1602. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2005.

in Japanese

 * Akamine Mamoru. Ryūkyū Ōkoku (琉球王国, Kingdom of Ryukyu). Tokyo: Kodansha, 2004.
 * Arano Yasunori. Sakoku wo minaosu (『鎖国』を見直す, Fixing the view of "the Closed Country"). Kawasaki: Kawasaki-shimin akademii shuppanbu, 2003.
 * Hamashita Takeshi. Okinawa Nyūmon: Ajia wo tsunagu kaiki kōsō (沖縄入門ーアジアをつなぐ海域構想, Introduction to Okinawa: Maritime Concept of Connecting Asia). Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 2000.
 * Kabuki Techō 2008 nenban (かぶき手帳2008年版, Kabuki Official Data Book 2008). Tokyo: Shōchiku k.k., 2008.
 * Narukami Fudō Kitayamazakura (雷神不動北山櫻). Tokyo: Shōchiku k.k., 2008. (theatre program)
 * Screech, Timon. Edo no Daifushin (江戸の大普請, The Great Building of Edo). Tokyo: Kodansha, 2007.
 * Shinshō Nihonshi (新詳日本史, New Detailed Japanese History). Nagoya: Hamajima Shoten, 2007.
 * Shinzato, Keiji, et al. Okinawa-ken no rekishi (History of Okinawa Prefecture). Tokyo: Yamakawa Publishing, 1996.
 * Teruya Rinken, Murakami Akiyoshi, Naka Bokunen. Okinawa no ima gaidobukku (沖縄のいまガイドブック, Guidebook of Okinawa Now). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1995.
 * Yonami Takeo. Shin Ryūkyū Ōtōshi: Shunten/Eiso (新琉球王統史：舜天・英祖, New History of the Royal Lineages of Ryukyu: Shunten/Eiso). Naha: Shinsei Shuppan, 2004.

Books I've cited but don't own

 * Jansen, Marius. The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
 * "Article Name." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha Ltd., 1985.
 * McFarland, H. Neill. The Rush Hour of the Gods. New York: MacMillan Company, 1967.
 * Papinot, Edmond. Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha, 1910.
 * Rosenfield, John M. Extraordinary Persons: Works by Eccentric, Nonconformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and John Powers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Art Museums, 1999.
 * Shillony, Ben-Ami. The Jews and the Japanese: the Successful Outsiders. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1991.
 * Smits, Gregory. Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.

Articles

 * A History of the Asiatic Department: A Series of Illustrated Lectures Given in 1957 by Kojiro Tomita (1890-1976). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1990.
 * Chūzan Seikan (中山世鑑, A Mirror of Chūzan). Ryūkyū Shiryō Sōshō (琉球資料総書). Vol 5. Oct 1941. pp3-81.

Websites

 * Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System (JAANUS). (2001).
 * Kabuki21.com.

On Copyright
It really frustrates me that museums, publishers, and photographers can claim copyright over items that existed long before copyright law was enacted, and which, as works of art really ought to belong to the whole world. We are an encyclopedia. What we do here is not to the monetary benefit of any one of us; it is to the educational benefit of all. What should be relevant is the item depicted, and the rights of the artist who created it, not the photographer. I should not have to make a trip and take the photos myself just to ensure that they are successfully public domain images; these things should be more freely and widely available. WikiCommons tries to serve that purpose, and serve it nobly. But where are we to obtain pictures to help fill up the Commons if people are going to be such sticklers for the copyrights of photographers and museums over that of the artwork itself and the artist, long-dead, who created it?
 * Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. - Supreme Court decision stating that perfect reproductions, with no creativity added, do not fall under copyright.
 * Official Wikimedia Foundation position on the issue of faithful reproductions of 2D artworks in the public domain.

On Macrons and Scholarship
I consider myself a proper scholar, and I think most of us here on Wikipedia ought to take that attitude. What we do here may be a very enjoyable hobby, but it's not a game. The goal here is to create an accurate, comprehensive, and useful encyclopedia. Mispelling things or misrepresenting them to make it more digestible to the lowest common denominator of Anglophone society is not the goal here. I have no problem at all with the multitude of popular culture pages here- things like video games, anime, martial arts - I'm a fan of a lot of these things too. But these things have a place within a greater context, and should be represented as such. Popular terms among fans are not necessarily proper words. Mispellings made official by American import companies are not the original names of things, and whatever you've learned at Tiger Shulman's karate in the strip mall is not genuine Okinawan or Japanese culture. Again, I do not mean to disrespect anyone in particular, but I think if we all take a more scholastic stance, and start to care about how polished, well-written, and accurate our work is, Wikipedia as a whole can improve dramatically.

On Narrative History
Political, economic, social, and cultural developments may be the four walls of the temple of history, but detailed accounts of events are the beams which comprise those walls, and names and dates are the nails which hold it together.

Far too many scholars shun narratives, and even detailed accounts of events and individuals' lives, focusing on questions and on arguments. If everything you write uses evidence to prove an argument, what happens to all the surrounding pieces of evidence which are irrelevant to your question? Do you just toss them aside, uncaring, or hoping that someone else will use them? If everything you write is written to answer a specific, narrowly-focused question, a "why" or a "how", who will be there to answer the "what"? Scholars need to describe before they analyse. History is like journalism; historians need to answer not just "why" or "how", but also who, what, and when. Otherwise everything falls apart.

Quotes

 * "There are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that." - Tom Lehrer, "National Brotherhood Week."


 * "Explain all that," said the Mock Turtle. "No, no! The adventures first," said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: "Explanations take such a dreadful time." - Alice in Wonderland


 * "The future is here; it’s just not widely distributed yet." - William Gibson


 * "Here is my impression of Wikipedia. 'There are five fingers on the human hand [citation needed]'". (From bash.org, anon chatroom poster)


 * "Carnival is not a spectacle seen by the people; they live in it, and everyone participates because its very idea embraces all people. While carnival lasts, there is no other life outside it. During carnival time life is subject only to its laws, that is, the laws of its own freedom." - Mikhail Bakhtin


 * Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali


 * "I wish they don't forget to keep those treasures pure which they have in excellence over the west: their artistic building of life, the simplicity and modesty in personal need, and the pureness and calmness of Japanese soul." - Albert Einstein, on the Japanese people


 * "Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms." - Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers


 * "Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth, but socialism is the equal distribution of poverty." - Anonymous


 * "If they'll give - they'll get. If they won't give - they won't get".("יתנו - יקבלו. לא יתנו - לא יקבלו") - Benjamin Netanyahu, regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.


 * "If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it." - Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"


 * Om mani padme hum - "The jewel is in the lotus." - sutra of Avalokiteshvara, Bodhisattva of Compassion


 * "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mohandas Gandhi


 * Ring-inscription in japanese.


 * "A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away." - Shintaro Ishihara


 * "There's a great deal of criticism about the United States, but there is one thing that nobody criticizes the United States. Nobody thinks the United States went to strike against Iraq in order to gain land or water or oil, nobody thinks America has any ambitions about real estate. As it happened in the 20th century, the American boys went to fight in two world wars, many of them lost their lives. The United States won the wars, won the land, but you gave back every piece of it. America didn't keep anything out of her victories for herself. You gave back Japan, an improved Japan, you gave Germany, an improved Germany, you've heard the Marshall Plan. And today, I do not believe there is any serious person on earth who thinks the United States, whether you agree or don't agree with this strike, has any egoistic or material purposes in the war against Iraq. The reason is, for this strike, that you cannot let the world run wild. And people who are coming from different corners of our life, attack and kill women and children and innocent people, just out of the blue. And I think the whole world is lucky that there is a United States that has the will and the power to handle the new danger that has arrived on the 21st century." -- Shimon Peres, Speech at Harvard University, October 20, 2004


 * "If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time." - Shimon Peres


 * "Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable." - Shimon Peres


 * "There can only be peace when they will start to love their children more than they hate us." — Golda Meir


 * "The object of war is a more perfect peace." — General William Tecumseh Sherman


 * "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural address (20 January 1953)


 * "...if a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, Remarks at Fourth Annual Republican Women's National Conference (6 March 1956)


 * "In war there is no substitute for victory." - Douglas MacArthur


 * "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." — General Douglas MacArthur


 * "Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country, he won it by making the other bastard die for his." — George S. Patton


 * "Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute." ~ Freeman Dyson


 * "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum. - Latin: "Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war."


 * "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." — Napoleon Bonaparte


 * "Yes, [capitalism] makes Christmas sterile, and no there isn't a way to reverse it save for making religious Christianity something cultural Christians want to participate in. The war on Christmas is actually being fought in Sunday school and church and the like where people are being turned off from Christianity." - Vickie Fuzalyova


 * "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -President Abraham Lincoln


 * "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." ~ Mark Twain


 * "If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous', had a friend who was 'different', or joined an organization that advocated 'change', we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants." - Edward R. Murrow


 * "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men— not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." - Edward R. Murrow


 * "Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live." - Edward R. Murrow


 * "We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late." - Edward R. Murrow


 * "This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference." - Edward R. Murrow


 * "The Bible is a book. It's a good book, but it is not the only book." - Henry Drummond (in Inherit the Wind)


 * "Vietnam is a country, not a war" - Le Van Bang, former Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States


 * 月雪の / 三句目を今 / 知る世かな - This world of moonlight / and snow - now I know what / the third line must be - Nonoguchi Ryūho


 * 天接青雲近、星追紫電開 - Arai Hakuseki

Japanese Idioms

 * 燕雀鴻鵠 (えんじゃくこうこく) - How can a small bird (a sparrow, a petty person) understand the aspirations of a great bird (a phoenix); Only a hero can understand a hero


 * 猿も木から落ちる. (Saru mo ki kara ochiru) - Even monkeys fall from trees.


 * 馬の耳に念仏 (Uma no mimi ni nenbutsu) - Praying into a horse's ear (sort of analogous to "It's like bashing your head against a brick wall.")


 * 井の中の蛙、大海を知らず. (I no naka ni kawazu, ooumi wo shirazu) - A frog inside a well doesn't know the big ocean.


 * 能ある鷹は爪す. (Nō aru taka ha tsume kakusu) - An eagle who knows how to use them well hides its talons (i.e., a person of superior ability does not show it off).


 * 士農工商　(samurai-agriculture-craft-business, shi-nou-kou-shou) - not so much a proverb, but a four-character phrase which nicely sums up the four classes of society.


 * 絵に描いた餅 (E ni egaita mochi) - lit. mochi drawn in a picture, i.e. something you can't actually eat. Analogous to English "pie in the sky" or "castle in the air"