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?
This week: in 1940, a manuscript lost for over 600 years is recovered from the archives of the Imperial family.…
The Jokyu Rebellion is one of the more minor conflicts in Japanese history; yet it also represents a tipping of…
This week: where did the Mongol Empire come from, and who was in charge when they decided to come after…