After a long hiatus, the diary of Kawai Koume picks back up in 1853, a year of absolutely no world-shaking…
This week, we’ll look at the first chunk of Kawai Koume’s diary, which deals with life in the 1830s–or as…
This week, we’re starting a new miniseries focused on the life of Kawai Koume, a samurai woman living in Wakayama…
This week, we wrap up our series on Hiroshige with a few lingering questions about his career. How much does…
This week, we’re covering Hiroshige’s emergence as an artist, which took 20 years after he finished his apprenticeship in the…
This week, we’re starting a new miniseries on the life of one of the most famous artists in Japanese history:…
This week on the podcast, something completely different! I’m getting some help talking about poetry from Mike Freiling, whose new…
Our final episode in this miniseries brings conspiracism in Japan to the present day, as we discuss a wave of…
This week, we’re covering the postwar “Red Scare” in Japan, which has roots going back to the early 20th century…
This week, conspiracism takes a new twist in Japan, from paranoid worries about Christianity to paranoid beliefs in “Western encirclement”.…