Wikibooks:Featured books/Nominations/Additions/Japanese History

This is a book on Japanese History, nearing completion, which I would like to nominate to be a featured book. Rrgreen (discuss • contribs) 20:40, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

I am the person who is (alone so far) putting the book on Japanese history together. I certainly hope that this will be considered a worthwhile project, but I do have to note that it is far from complete. I have resumed work after a lapse and am just now finishing up the section on the Middle Heian period, which will bring it up to the death of Fujiwara Michinaga. That leaves about 1000 years of Japanese history to go, a time during which the amount of surviving raw materials for history writing increased steadily. And, I have left gaps, topics I have skipped over at least temporarily. I have included nothing about the history of art or literature or the history of Buddhist and Shinto institutions. In the period I am just now working on there appear for the first time materials that would permit writing about domestic architecture, food, clothing and similar topics and this sort of thing becomes abundant for later periods. The main reason that I selected Wikibooks as the venue for this project is that it opened the possibility of a collaborative effort in which other people would take up topics I have neglected or offer alternative takes on topics I have addressed where they think that I am wrong about them. By the time the text advances to the point where there is some 500 years to go to reach the present I believe that the total amount of information available would utterly overwhelm the ability of just one person to handle it all. If this is to become a really comprehensive history of Japan it will be necessary for other people to pitch in.--David L Davis (discuss • contribs) 16:40, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

I have published much on the chapters on the history of Japan after the Middle Heian Period and these are now quite complete. I do not think this needs to be a completely comprehensive history but rather to educate people on the history of Japan when they have never considered learning about it.Rrgreen (discuss • contribs) 17:59, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

This is great work! This text provides a lot of information about Japanese History, and is well deserving of the Featured Book status if we are speaking of content alone. I think that the chapters and sections could use more photos, specifically the Asuka Period, which is amazingly lengthy. Additionally, many of the earlier period chapters need to be broken down into smaller sections for better organization and easier reading. I look forward to reading it further, and re-examining my feelings on its status as a potential featured book. --Thereen (discuss • contribs) 21:14, 6 March 2011 (UTC)