Episode 117 - The Fall of the Samurai, Part 1

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're starting our new longest ever series on the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the birth of modern Japan. This week, we're taking a look at the political situation in the Tokugawa period -- how was the country carved up by Tokugawa Ieyasu? Who ruled what, and what kind of implications did that have in terms of establishing a secure and stable nation?

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. Before we get started today, in lieu of the usual sponsorship message, I just wanted to clue you guys in on a few things.
0:08.8	First of all, I want to apologize for the lateness of the last two episodes.
0:13.9	Partially, that's the fault of my wonderful internet service provider, shout out to Comcast.
0:19.4	Partially, that's the fault of my hosting service.
0:22.8	You see, the last couple episodes have been big enough that I'm actually starting to hit
0:26.8	the bandwidth cap for the service I use.
0:29.6	I'm looking into upgrading, but it's a little expensive and I want to make sure I get the
0:33.9	best deal possible, so I'm going to hold off on that for a little bit,
0:37.8	though it is something I'm investigating to make sure this does not happen again.
0:41.8	Incidentally, if you'd like to support the new hosting, you can go to patrian.com slash
0:46.4	History of Japan to pledge a donation to help me out on that.
0:50.6	Alternatively, you can donate via PayPal.
0:53.2	The information for that is on my website,
0:56.0	Historyofjapan.wordpress.com.
0:59.4	The second thing I wanted to let you guys know is that there will be no new episode next week.
1:04.8	Owing to a family situation, I have to head back to the East Coast for a little bit,
1:09.0	and I won't have my recording equipment or
1:11.2	probably the spare time to make a new episode for you. In addition, we're coming up on that
1:17.9	most wonderful time in the life of a PhD student, qualifying exams. If you don't know what those
1:24.5	are, they're essentially a knock-down, drag-out, all-in quiz show
1:29.2	that determines whether or not I advance to the stage of my PhD where I can start writing
1:34.0	my dissertation, which is to say the final piece of work I have to produce before getting the
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