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, we’re tackling the most legendary samurai in Japanese history: Miyamoto Musashi. Why is he so famous, what do…
This week, we cover how the legend of Yoshitsune as told in Gikeiki describes his demise. Which is how his…
This week, we come to the text that more than any other helps build the Yoshitsune legend: Gikeiki. Here, at…
This week, the Yoshitsune legend finds its legs with Heike Monogatari–one of the most epic works in Japanese history. Except…