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Hatamoto
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because it would be good if editors could offer some constructive viewpoints on how this article could be further improved, lengthened, and hopefully brought closer to good article status.

Thanks, Tadakuni (talk) 16:01, 11 April 2008 (UTC)


 * It's come a long way and it's in much better shape than it was a month ago. Here are some suggestions for topics that could be added to lengthen the article, making it more complete. Please consider these as possible directions for expanding the article, not as a required to-do list for a Good Article or Featured Article. Some of these are already touched on in the article, of course.


 * Name some additional famous hatamoto. Ōkubo Tadataka is an early example. The colorful Mizuno Jūrōzaemon (水野成之) dates from later in the century. Ōoka Tadasuke is a middle-period example, and another famous example of a hatamoto promoted to daimyo. Tōyama Kagemoto is a still-later example, and Katsu Kaishū is a prominent bakumatsu figure.


 * Detail their occupations and career paths. The Japanese Wikipedia has information on these. The English Wikipedia has articles about some of the posts they held. Mention the major guard posts as well as administrative positions.


 * Tell readers more about their lives: in which cities and neighborhoods they lived, what their housing was like, what they wore and ate, where they worshiped, which martial arts they practiced. What they studied. Entertainment. Marriage and inheritance patterns and adoption.


 * Discuss the major trends. The transition from a military to a peacetime bureaucracy. How the number of hatamoto changed over time. Hatamoto as a power bloc.


 * Hatamoto in fiction. Kabuki and bunraku, kodan, gesaku, and modern novels, plays, films, television shows and so forth.

Fg2 (talk) 03:31, 12 April 2008 (UTC)