Japan: Samurai and Shoguns (TRIH ep 277)
1868 · Resource
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland host a wide-ranging survey of Japanese history with guest Chris Harding, senior lecturer in Asian history at the University of Edinburgh and author of two books on Japan. Harding outlines key moments and figures across a millennium: the Heian court and Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji; the rise of samurai and the brutal unifier Oda Nobunaga; the Tokugawa (Edo) era's 'floating world', kabuki and Ihara Saikaku; the forced reopening of Japan, the Meiji Restorati...
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