User talk:Hydeparkcorner

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"Ueno Royal Museum"
Well well, Ueno no Mori Bijutsukan really has the bizarre name of "Ueno Royal Museum" for the benefit of furriners. You were right, I was wrong. Sorry! -- Hoary (talk) 05:22, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure if this is how I respond, but here goes. Thanks for the suggestions and the kind note. Being a newcomer to Wikipedia, I appreciate the guidance. The Ueno Royal Museum was odd, I agree; but I guess, if you start a museum, you can call it what you want.Hydeparkcorner (talk) 07:10, 29 December 2008 (UTC)


 * "Royal" is a word that's rarely applied in Japan to anything that -- unlike, say, a way of preparing more or less Indian-style tea -- might reasonably be associated with the Japanese monarchy, even though the latter was largely a late-19th-century creation based on European models. "Imperial"'s the word. But anyway I'd never heard of any museum with a similar name. The website of Ueno no Mori, which I had heard of, tells me that indeed it is "Royal". &para; I can't say much more about Yanagi, though I remember that she's one of the people who appears in the mostly lacklustre exhibition catalogue Heavy Light, of which I have a copy somewhere. (Her photos there are more interesting than the average, but they're monochrome and the monochrome reproduction in that book is mediocre. All in all, save your money.) &para; If you're wondering how/why Shibata had such a crap article (and one so similar to dozens of others), the answer's here and here. -- Hoary (talk) 07:48, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks...I had used the Hiroshi Sugimoto page as my example and that had "Life and Works". I was focussing more on consistency than anything else.


 * There are some people whose primary notability is claimed to derive from a crime or marriage or something. (I'm very sceptical of this kind of stuff, as I think that criminals generally deserve oblivion, and as I'm not interested in royal and other soap operas. But I realize that I'm in a minority.) For such people, "Life and works" might be secondary. But for anybody else, I wonder what there is aside from "Life and works". If these cover almost everything, why make them into a separate section? -- Hoary (talk) 03:37, 31 December 2008 (UTC)