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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2010-02-08 09:10 am
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Reading along in this fairly uninspired Meiji weird tales novel, I find my naive protag heading down Kagurazaka in the direction of Ushigome, and must at once go get the map to find out where Kagurazaka is. I knew I'd been there in my Tokyo exploring days back in (sob) 1992, but I couldn't put my finger on the place. Down from Iidabashi, oh right, high class corner of the mercantile world, oh right. Google Streetview isn't very helpful, but yeah, I remember the narrow back streets and discreet monied-looking restaurants behind walls. The intervening 18 years seems to have gaijin-friendlied the place a bit; then I just felt out of place.

Here, for future reading reference, are the city wards in Meiji, just to have them handy. All the clothes vocabulary I shall just have to fake.

(Yanno, when I went to Japan, I sort of thought I'd wind up like this woman. Can't think what went wrong.)

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2010-02-08 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
She seems to be a fascinating person. But ... I think you turned out pretty well and equally fascinating. ^___^ I'm kind of happy you are who you are.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2010-02-08 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
But my international career divided between Paris and Tokyo, what happened to that? Why does the UN not want me to work for them? Why am I not invited to publish my thoughts in various Tokyo journals? Something is seriously wrong with the present scenario.

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2010-02-08 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
*smiles* - I suppose there is nought I could say to that.

Although from that link it seems from her background she was well connected so she had the unfair - if not several - advantage(s).

There have been many instances where I have said ... oohh that could have been me, but for the paths and side roads I took.

*hug*