It's been awhile since we've spoken. I have a number of announcements to make, but for now, this will be my first. I'm well underway in translating Gogo no Date Kinu 五々の伊達絹, Kayaba Mokuhei's 1798 text on the history of the Date family of Sendai. Kayaba wrote Gogo no Date Kinu on the 600th anniversary of the death of Date Tomomune, the founder of the family. To my knowledge, this is a text that is rather unknown even in Japanese circles. It is a concise, relatively easy to read text, even in the original language, and I think it would make a fine addition to the body of primary works from the Edo period which have appeared in translation.
A fair amount of it is devoted to the life and work of Date Masamune, founder of Sendai-han. With Masamune's recent rise in popularity, I expect there will be a fair amount of non-academic readers interested in this book!
I hope to be done by some time in late June; I'll keep everyone posted on my progress.
Be well, everyone! けっばれけさいん (頑張ってください)!
