This week, we’re tackling the most legendary samurai in Japanese history: Miyamoto Musashi. Why is he so famous, what do…
This week, we cover how the legend of Yoshitsune as told in Gikeiki describes his demise. Which is how his…
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, we’re turning our attention to possibly the most unique of Japan’s colonial ventures during the imperial era: Manchuria.…
This week: the Meiji Bureaucracy, in all its glory. How did the system actually work? What sorts of people did…
What even is religion, when you get down to it? Why do we treat religion the way that we do?…
This week we continue our footnote on the history of dogs in Japan. How did public perceptions of dogs change…
In the final footnote for our Revised Introduction, we turn our attention to a little discussed subject that is a…
This week, we’re continuing last week’s footnote on daily life in Meiji Japan. Topics covered this week include life as…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History Footnotes: what was it like to live in the Meiji Era?…