It's really ironic that the Internet educates me better than DeBlasi does. He got us all jumbled with the Taihou Code and the ritsuryou system and the Third Wave of the Taika Reform (which he never bothered defining at all) -- all of which he wants to know on the midterm. I search on the Internet and pop up the first window, and not only does it give me the information I need in a clear and concise manner, but it gives me the names of the chronological period he never bothered naming for us that we were missing. ("So what are those 400 years in there called? I guess they're called the centuries between the end of the Yayoi Period and the Taika Period, huh?")
Also, you know that you are a sad, sad fangirl -- or have been doing Japanese History homework too long -- when you look at Japanese history and the first thing you think is slash. Naka no Oue (an imperial prince who will be called Emperor Tenji when he assumes the throne), Nakatomi no Kamatari (a scholar and strategist), and Soga no Ishikawa Maro (military man) were the three central powers responsible for the coup that led to the downfall of the Soga clan. What would make a Soga and a Nakatomi, such fierce enemies, join forces against the Soga's own clan? Obviously, hot sex and truuuu luuuuv is the answer. Nakatomi's the uke. Tenji is either too full of himself to care, or infatuated with Nakatomi and jealous of Soga.
That is, if history were a fanfic. But maybe it is. Stranger things have happened.
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