This week: Sakamoto Ryoma commits fully to the loyalist cause, but ends up on a turbulent journey that will take…
This week, we return to the turbulent age of the Bakumatsu–the collapse of the Tokugawa state–with a biography of one…
This week, we’ll begin another two-parter dealing with the life and death of Saigo Takamori, one of the great leaders…
This week, we’re going to be discussing the early Meiji Period (1868-1900 or so). There’s a lot of material to…