This week, the Yoshitsune legend finds its legs with Heike Monogatari–one of the most epic works in Japanese history. Except…
Note: I made a mistake recording this episode but did not have time to go back and fix it. It’s…
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…