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…
Note: I made a mistake recording this episode but did not have time to go back and fix it. It’s…
This week on the Footnotes to the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: many describe Zen as the religion of the…
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…
How did one man’s determination to get paid end up producing one of the best records we have of a pivotal moment in Japanese history?