This week: Isaac spends 30 minutes unpacking the 400+ page ramblings of a cranky retiree who died about 200 years…
This week, we’re talking about one of the last attempts to save the Tokugawa shogunate: the Tenpo Reforms of the…
This week, we’re wrapping up our month on piracy by looking at how the image of “Japanese pirates” became so…
This week, we’re talking about how Hideyoshi finally tamed Japan’s pirates, and why that makes them so hard to understand…
This week, we’re focusing on the height of piracy during the civil wars in Japan, and in particular the powerful…
This week, we’re going to stay in the Sengoku but take a step away from all this samurai action to…
This week, we cover the rest of the lives of Sugen’in, Joko’in, and Yodo-dono (and some other really fascinating incidental…
This week, we’re revisiting some well-trod ground (the final decades of the 1500s and the careers of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi)…
This week, we’re starting off a month of Sengoku-themed content with a look at one of the remoter areas of…
This week, we’re discussing the autobiography of a troublemaking, low-ranking samurai whose life didn’t reshape Japan, but whose tale can…