This week, we’re talking about one of the oddest moments of the final years of feudalism: a spontaneous outbreak of…
This week, the Kawai family has finally made good in the world of feudal Wakayama–just in time for that world…
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 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: what do we know about women and the wrong end of the law during the Tokugawa Period? Given…
This week: outside of big urban riots, how did violence figure into the daily life of the Edo period? To…
This week, we cover the second and third of Edo’s three great riots in 1787 and 1866. How did samurai…
This week: the first of three episodes on urban rioting in Tokugawa period Japan. This week, we’re covering the first…