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A final thanks
(Posted on behalf of the (overseas) mod - shinomori_blue)
The mod would like to take the time to thank everyone who made The Meiji Restored possible. The storylines and character histories ran for over two years and that is a milestone that not many communities get to boast. On behalf of everyone at the Meiji, I'd like to thank the readers who stayed by us all ( Read more... ) -
Oct. 18, 1882 - Late Afternoon: Living, Remembering
The hazy glow of afternoon is beginning to fade when I finally lay down my brush, and sigh.
It has been four years now, since I first began this project, and the undertaking has been both harder and easier than I expected. Sitting down, day after day, always at the same spot, always at the same time, letting the words pour out little by little... ( Read more... ) -
An afternoon long overdue (10.18.1888) || Offerings at the temple in Asakusa
We climb the steps slowly to the top. The children straggle behind, trying to make their way up these steps on their own effort. I do not carry them, because my mother did not carry me that one day we too made a similar pilgrimage ( Read more... ) -
October 18, 1882, Kyoto, The Aoiya, Late Morning.
I step out onto the engawa to take a short break ( Read more... ) -
Oct. 13, 1878 - Evening/Oct. 17, 1878 - Night: Windsong
(damnit, no amount of editing will ever make this less convoluted than it already is! aargh, leaving it as is.)
Oct. 13
Yuriko. Masako. Uno. Ayu.I think sometimes there must have been a prophet, some mysterious wrinkled figure come from nowhere to witness my birth, and must have spoken these words: "Beware! For you are cursed, and woman shall be ( Read more... ) -
October 18, 1882--Noontime--Izumi Household--Aizu
It's too much, this emotion that I feel ( Read more... ) -
October 17, 1878 - Temple on the Edge of Town, Evening
"Look who came crawlin' back ( Read more... ) -
October 18, 1882: Yokohama Port Harbor and Train Station
Time has brought even more chaos and change to Japan in the years since I left it. I had been apprehensive about returning as one of "those" who had been abroad, but I can tell, as we disembark off the boat and into the waiting carriage, that the people here view foreign things as simply a part of everyday life ( Read more... ) -
October 18, 1882 | 明治十五の沖田総司 (Meiji 15's Okita Souji) | Mid-morning
A flurry of handmaidens scurry out of the small, nondescript room, carrying with them the tsuno kakushi hood and shiromuku that everybody talked about earlier in the ceremony held in the temple . With their departure, it is as if a chapter in my life left with them, and inside that room...Is a new one ( Read more... ) -
Oct 17, 1878 - Very late afternoon, Outside Gensai Clinic Bedrooms
I had resolved to let it be and yet, I still found myself here before a familiar shoji ( Read more... )