This week, the Kawai family has finally made good in the world of feudal Wakayama–just in time for that world…
After a long hiatus, the diary of Kawai Koume picks back up in 1853, a year of absolutely no world-shaking…
This week, we’ll look at the first chunk of Kawai Koume’s diary, which deals with life in the 1830s–or as…
This week, we’re starting a new miniseries focused on the life of Kawai Koume, a samurai woman living in Wakayama…
This week: we take a look at postwar samurai film/jidaigeki in order to understand better the trajectory of the most…
This week on the Footnotes to the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: many describe Zen as the religion of the…
This week: the age of feudalism comes crashing down, as in the span of just two years the Tokugawa shogunate…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: crises about during the late Edo period. A crisis of samurai…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: how did the Tokugawa bakufu operate? What did the political structure…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: Hideyoshi may have brought peace, but Tokugawa Ieyasu would be the…