A Long Back and Sides | Feudal Japan (Part 2)

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Finn versus History. I'm joined as ever by Hiratio Gould.
0:17.5	And we are talking again about feudal Japan. Yes.
0:21.6	Part two of our Feudal Japan series.
0:22.6	We'd got up to the end of the 1550s, I believe, 1560 odd.
0:27.6	Yeah, we are entering the 60s.
0:29.6	It's the 60s in Japan.
0:31.6	Very different 60s.
0:33.6	Very different 60s.
0:34.6	The suicidal 60s.
0:35.6	Swinging from a tree because you've hung yourself because that's a good thing. Yeah. Perfect Sunday. A perfect. What's a perfect Sunday in Fiel's Japan? Talk about me through it. I would say, you know, you've got your favorite Subucus sword. Yeah. Polish thing. Give that. Wake up. Give that polish. You're not having... tweeting outside and then you sort of bleed out for 90 minutes. I'd say, you know, you'll apologize. You're not having... You're not having... You're not having... You're not having... You know, you sort of bleed out for 90 minutes.
0:55.6	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
0:56.4	I'd say, you know, you wake up.
1:07.5	Yeah. You take your shoes off. Yeah. So you're sleeping your shoes, probably. There's no tables. You have your breakfast on the floor like a dog. But that's a good thing. because you're in Japan.
1:08.7	You kiss your child boyfriend.
1:09.9	You kiss your child boyfriend out of honor.
1:13.4	I respect.
1:13.8	Who's not...
1:14.1	Respect.
1:14.4	Who's just... because you're in Japan. You kiss your child boyfriend. You kiss your child boyfriend out of honor
1:12.2	who's not...
1:13.7	Respect.
1:14.0	Who's not allowed to penetrate you.
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