This week: the “short-lived” part of “the short-lived Ezo Republic” comes to fruition, and what is now Meiji Japan begins…
This week, we’ll cover the military campaigns of 1868. Edo will (surprisingly anticlimactically) fall, the north will rebel, and Matsudaira…
In early 1868, the armies of the loyalists and the Tokugawa bakufu will clash outside Kyoto. We’ll discuss the…
This week, we’ll move into the tumultuous events of 1863. Challenges foreign and domestic are going to upset the…
This week, we’ll move into the messy early/mid 1860s and look at the doomed attempt to bridge the gap…
This week, the turbulent politics following the death of Ii Naosuke will result in the rise of one of the…
This week we’re covering one of the great tales of Japanese history: 47 warriors without a master who engaged in…
This week, we’re going to discuss the ninja, or at least what we can discern about them from the limited…
For our first listener-submitted topic, we’re tackling Bushido: the warrior code of the samurai class. We’ll discuss the evolution of…
First and foremost, thank you to everyone who messaged me or commented over the past week. Your input has been…