This week: Fujiwara no Kaneie is a name we’ve encountered once before on the podcast. But now we get to…
We’re starting a new series taking a look at an oft neglected classic of Heian literature: The Eiga Monogatari, or…
This week: in 1988, a Japanese company bought a paper mill in Port Angeles, WA, in a story that basically…
This week: rumors swirled around Port Angeles for decades after WWII that a Japanese man, Osasa Masaru, who had lived…
This week: what role does a sleepy town in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula play in Japan’s history? Well, more than you’d…
This week: how does the Taiheiki depict its most famous characters? How does it describe the downfall of the Hojo?…
The Taiheiki is arguably one of the most dismissed works of literature in Japanese history, doomed to always exist solely…
This week: the manga industry during World War II. Plus some thoughts on the development of shojo manga, and finally…
Histories of manga tend to skip from the colorful woodblocks of the Edo period directly to the post-WWII industry we’d…
This week: manga is today one of the most ubiquitous forms of entertainment in Japan. But the idea of comics…