Nippon Sangoku is sooo good. I swear to god, as soon as the anime ends I'm diving into the manga and the fandom head first.

Behold! The contents of my brainrot in a neat custom made timeline form with footnotes and sources galore. Or as I like to call it: "how much can you realistically squeze out of canon if you're desperate enough" satsuma-timeline.vercel.app

Eeee!!? Koujirou assasuicide was in Asahikawa!? I lived my life thinking for sure it was in Tokyo. Wtf was he still doing in Asahikawa? Didn't he quit the 7th before the war? I thought for sure he moved back to Tokyo for the staff things...

I finally understood why Kikuta's Sargent uniform was the same as Yuusaku's: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%... It also gives some cool insights about Yuu's timeline

my brain is a machine that makes wlw pairings no one asked for

I'm starting to think Hiro might have come from a Meiji peerage family. She did the volunteer nursing alongside Marchioness Ooyama (high nobility) and connected directly to Kaeko from the Peeresses School for a prospective daughter in law. This was her social circle.

Why I don't think anymore that Heiji saw active combat in the Russo-Japanese war: a thread.

I'm back to writing again and I stand before a moral dilemma. Which is more important? The meticulous historical accuracy I tried to cultivate in this dtory? Or making a Kikuta dick joke? 😏

A couple of notes about Heinojou’s grave: Did you notice Noda changed the shape of the grave? In the magazine version it's flat, while in the volume version it has a pyramid top.

This, but with Heiji, Yuki and Koujirou

FYI, I didn't give up on continuing No Second Strike. I just needed more research so I signed up for a Jigen Ryu workshop in Kagoshima and am now flying to Japan. Wheee 🙃

Yuki's cut glass goblet on her Westernized table is actually a 100% Satsuma product. The technique was called Satsuma Kiriko and was developed in the 1830s by the lords of the Shimazu clan.

Young Koujirou's haircut is just me obsessing over the mad Meiji drip Tatsuya Nakadai had going in Fireflies in the North

1901 half-english guide to Hakodate. Super useful and I'm so sad I don't have that much scenes outside dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/763063/1/2

Yuki's working class snow hood disguise

There's a statue in Hakodate's Motomachi that started this story in my head. She's called Haikara-san, which comes from High Collar, used to describe Western fashion and culture.

Reading "Spring Snow" for the first time and its just so rewarding when my niche knowledge of Meiji mura building's history lets me see through Mishima's sources. note.com/780210/n/ne4...

Mainly I just need a place to ramble about the Hakodate story I'm writing. Details, sources, finds, etc. archiveofourown.org/works/699147...

So, here's another restart of x.com/satsumadads. Please bare with me 🙇