This week: Isaac spends 30 minutes unpacking the 400+ page ramblings of a cranky retiree who died about 200 years…
This week, we cover the rest of the lives of Sugen’in, Joko’in, and Yodo-dono (and some other really fascinating incidental…
This week: how did the threat of Western imperialism change the relationship between mainland Japan and Hokkaido, and help set…
This week, we tackle one of our more unique subjects. It’s time to talk about an institution so secretive that…
This week, we tackle the life of one of Japan’s most interesting women, who rose from obscure origins to become…
This week, we’re taking a look at the foreign policy of Edo Japan by starting a deep dive into a…
This week, we take a look at the peasant uprisings in Aizu domain in 1868 to continue our exploration of…
While the Meiji Restoration was going on, where was everybody else? We’ll start trying to answer that question today with…
This week, we cover an obscure bit of samurai history: the Keian Incident, a planned coup against the Tokugawa Shoguns…
This week we cover the life and career of the legendary judge Oka Tadasuke, who rose from minor samurai to…