This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the politics of the Meiji Period! After a coalition of samurai,…
This week: the age of feudalism comes crashing down, as in the span of just two years the Tokugawa shogunate…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the sudden assassination of the tairo Ii Naosuke sparks the rapid…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the beginning of the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. Commodore Perry’s…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: crises about during the late Edo period. A crisis of samurai…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: “closed country” isn’t quite the full story. How did Japan maintain…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: what was life in the Edo period like? We cover everything…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: how did the Tokugawa bakufu operate? What did the political structure…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: Hideyoshi may have brought peace, but Tokugawa Ieyasu would be the…
With Nobunaga dead, we turn our attention to one of his generals: Hashiba Hideyoshi, who would take up leadership of…