This week, the story of Nakahama Manjiro, the castaway turned American whaler turned gold miner turned samurai turned English professor.…
In early 1868, the armies of the loyalists and the Tokugawa bakufu will clash outside Kyoto. We’ll discuss the…
This week, we cover 1867: the final year of the Tokugawa shogunate (sort of). Caught between a loyalist rock…
1864 is probably the most important year in the Meiji Restoration that nobody really has heard of; the Tokugawa will…
This week, the turbulent politics following the death of Ii Naosuke will result in the rise of one of the…
This week, we’ll be going all Tom Cruise for our second media review, and discussing the actual history behind the…
This week, we’ll be doing our second shogunal biography. We’re going to discuss the life and legacy of the man…
So, for those of you who aren’t caught up yet — I’m in Japan doing some summer work for the…
First and foremost, thank you to everyone who messaged me or commented over the past week. Your input has been…
This week we will be covering the fall of the Ashikaga bakufu and the beginnings of the Sengoku, or W11arring…