This week, we look at the flip side of the chaos of the Sengoku era in the form of two…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: our first foray into the age of civil war! We’re looking…
This week: the Muromachi bakufu comes crashing down, thanks to a combination of structural weaknesses and a shogun who is…
This week: Go-Daigo’s regime collapses, and a second samurai government, the Muromachi bakufu, emerges. How did Ashikaga Takauji successfully establish…
This week: the dramatic career of Emperor Go-Daigo, who brought down the Kamakura shogunate and ended Hojo rule in Japan.…
This week, we’re taking a look at some of the economic and social structures of Kamakura period Japan in order…
This week: why did the Mongols invade Japan? How did a seemingly invincible military machine falter in its assaults on…
This week: the advent of the medieval era brings with it new strands of Buddhism that will radically remake the…
This week: the rise of the Minamoto clan, the destruction of the Taira clan, and the birth of a new…
This week, we’re covering the beginnings of the rise of the samurai class by looking at the wars of the…