User talk:Blurose1111

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Liked your article--it needs some references. Cheers, Darkspots 02:44, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Sakoku
Much thanks for your continued efforts on the Sakoku Edict of 1635 article. Just as a note, you don't need to double up items in links, e.g. Tokugawa Ieyasu unless the two phrases are different, in which case the name of the article you're linking to goes first, and what you want to appear in the text goes second, e.g. Ieyasu or the shogun.

If you're really interested in the sakoku issue, I would suggest seeking out a copy of Ronald Toby's "State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan". My MA dissertation is focusing on sakoku, and I've found this book to be quite enlightening about the extent to which the country wasn't actually closed, the incredible volume of trade they conducted, the ways in which they were closed to certain types of trade, and the reasons.

Cheers. LordAmeth 15:57, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Ahh, it sounds very interesting! I will definitely take a look :) Thank you so much for all of your help, I wouldn't have been able to do the edits alone. I added the citations and created a reference list, something that took a long time, but I am very proud of :) Feel free to let me know if there is anything else that stands out to you. --Blurose1111 14:27, 10 May 2007 (UTC)