In America, when we think of bureaucracy, it doesn’t conjure the best associations. In Japan, meanwhile, the bureaucracy has a…
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: the age of feudalism comes crashing down, as in the span of just two years the Tokugawa shogunate…