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Cleaning up some old USBs I found a word doc I didn’t remember so I opened it. To my surprise this is what was on it. Yeah! I vaguely remember writing it but no idea where the info came from. So anyway, here we go.

What was travel like during the Edo period? Well for the most, travel by commoners was prohibited by the laws of each feudal domain, but there were looph...


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An interesting look at the Kyushu mountain top fire signal network by local researcher Usatsuhiko Kiyotomo.

The signal fire network was established by the Tang Army.
While illustrations often show these fires alerting Dazaifu, he has a theory that it is likely the opposite. These signals were notifying the Tang forces on the Korean Peninsula.

The Mystery o...


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Hi all.

My friend Mark and I went on a day trip to Matsuura in Nagasaki last Monday.

The goal was to visit 2 castle ruins which were built by the Hata clan of the Matsuura pirates.

We went to Karukaya first only to be met by a road block. No car entry! So we left the car at the fishing port and walked up then told by some labourers that the site ...


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