This week: Fujiwara no Kaneie is a name we’ve encountered once before on the podcast. But now we get to…
We’re starting a new series taking a look at an oft neglected classic of Heian literature: The Eiga Monogatari, or…
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’re covering one of the most titanic names in Japanese literature–Natsume Soseki–and the work that propelled him to…
This week, the story of an Edo period writer whose primary claim to fame was producing decent ripoffs of people…
This week: what can we learn about the past if we look not at elite literature, but at the lowbrow…