This week, we’re talking about one of the oddest moments of the final years of feudalism: a spontaneous outbreak of…
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 wrap up our series on Hiroshige with a few lingering questions about his career. How much does…
This week, we’re covering Hiroshige’s emergence as an artist, which took 20 years after he finished his apprenticeship in the…
This week, we explore the “Christian conspiracies” of Edo Period Japan. Working backwards from the Osaka Incident of 1827, when…
Japan’s “Christian Century” is the source of many fascinating aspects of Japanese history, from modern firearms to tenpura. But there’s…
This week: what do we know about women and the wrong end of the law during the Tokugawa Period? Given…