History Forum / General / British History / February 2007

On Feb 23, 4:18 pm, "D. Spencer Hines" <poguemid...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

You were at Seya?

Here in Vancouver it's Mount Baker, often referred to by the older
Japanese locals as "Baker-san". The Japanese community has been here
for over 100 years, located on the edge of Richmond in a community
called Steveston and in thir own community as Sutebusuton. Most came
originally from Chiba and Nara Prefectures in Japan.

The community is extremely cohesive and celebrates all the traditional
festivals. They have an attractive Buddhist temple and what is thought
to be the finest dojo in all of North America.

http://www.judosask.ca/picpages/images/pacific2004-12.jpg

The Japanese and Caucasian communities are now integrated and
intermarriage is not uncommon. The results are very attractive, a
tall, handsome group with roots from all the world, like this
French-Canadian-Japanese girl.

http://static.flickr.com/54/152408477_9de42f8004.jpg

In Vancouver there is a Japanese part of town, but the jewel in the
crown is the Nitobe Gardens in the UBC (University of British
Columbia) grounds, considered to be the finest Japanese garden outside
Japan
http://martingoodman.com/soyouwanttobeawriter/uploaded_images/nitobe-726276.JPG

My wife and I would go there in summer to sit on the grass and play
Shogi (Japanese chess)

http://tinyurl.com/2qu4es

and Go, the apparently simplest yet highly complicated board game in
the world; which to date has defied all attempts to computerize it;
game at which my wife was superb, while I waded in her wake...

http://www.japan-101.com/culture/go_ancient_strategic_board_game.htm

The overall result is that Vancouver and Steveston attract hundreds of
visitors from Japan every year, many of whom are students who attend
UBC and other learning establishments.

Vancouver itself is an eclectic mixture of Caucasian, native
Canadians, Russians, whose churches are jewels and Scots, as well as
others from all over the world. Intermarriage is very common; many of
native Canadians are part-Hawaiian for example; the result of laws
forbidding Hawaiian sailors to marry Caucasian women in the old white
supremacy days. The largest non-Caucasian community is Chinese,
followed by Sikhs, but there are communities from every imaginable
region, including Tibet.

http://tinyurl.com/3cn5l8

Vancouver's old Chinese name is Ham Sui Fow - Salt Water City - but
the more recent immigrants call it Wan. The result is that dining out
is one of the great Vancouver customs as one can eat almost any
imaginable cuisine from Jamaican to English. There is even a Scottish
Cultural Centre, referred to by my wife as Vancouver's finest example
of an oxymoron... There is an English presence, but muted and as a
multi-cultural community, there are festivals through the summer which
are widely attended by people of all origins which act as showpieces
for each national group, including a vast parade for Canada Day when
national costumes are worn and is a focal point for meeting attractive
young ladies by youths like my handsome very Highland-looking grandson
whose major interests seem to revolve around his bed, unaccompanied or
otherwise... http://tinyurl.com/yuxz2l

   

The Highlander

Faodaidh nach ionann na beachdan anns
an post seo agus beachdan a' Ghàidheil.
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not necessarily those of The Highlander.

Hilarious!

Pogue Linthicum has NO IDEA where I was "stationed" and where my residences
and my GARDENS were -- during my many sojourns in Japan.

What a ridiculous idiot!

FURTHER:

Pogue Linthicum flunks Junior High School Geography.

Tokyo is about 60 miles from Fuji-san [Mount Fuji], NOT "a little bit
further away" -- indeed TWICE as far away from Fuji-san as Pogue Linthicum
says he was ---- and Misawa is about 400 miles from Fuji-san.

Damn, he's stupid -- and he's so foolish he goes PUBLIC with it -- and
FLAUNTS it.

FARBLONDJET!

Also, it's _Basho_ -- NOT _Bosho_ -- as Pogue Linthicum would have it.

Basho Matsuo (1644-1694)

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D>

How Sweet It Is!

Subsequently, Pogue Linthicum rabbited off into irrelevancies and red
herrings.

Hilarious!

Pogues On The Run...

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

The real trick is can you see Mount Rainier? Hines was stationed in
Misawa, easily 250 miles from Fuji, and garden or no garden, a long
look. I was stationed about 30 miles from Fuji, and I would suspect
Bosho [sic] was living in Edo (Tokyo), a little bit further away, when he
wrote those lines.