Episode 118 - The Fall of the Samurai, Part 2

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this ecclectic episode, we'll finish up our quick review of the Tokugawa period with a look at three things: the various issues which plagued the samurai class by the 19th century, three of the regions that will play a key role in the fall of the shogunate, and finally the foreign crisis.

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0:33.2	This week, I'm going to recommend The Samurai by Endo Shusaku.
0:38.0	Endo was one of 20th century Japan's premier novelists, and this work dovetails nicely with
0:43.7	something we've already talked about.
0:46.1	The samurai is a fictionalized account of the story of Hasekura Tsunanaga, the samurai ambassador
0:52.4	to Europe in the 1600s, who we discussed a few episodes back.
0:57.1	It's a tremendously famous novel and provides a fictionalized but still interesting account
1:02.2	of one of the most interesting clashes of culture in Japanese history.
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1:10.6	Thank you. Go to audibletrial.com slash Japan to claim your copy. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast. Hello, and welcome to the History of Japan podcast.
1:31.6	Episode 118, The Fall of the Samurai, part two.
1:37.2	First, before we get started, a couple of quick corrections from last week.
1:42.6	Special thanks to listener Ayame Chiba for catching them.
1:46.4	Two things. As Ayame correctly noted, it's incorrect to say that post-Togawa Ieyasu, pre-Meiji
1:54.5	shoguns, never visited the imperial city or the emperor in Kyoto. There was one shogun who did, the third Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa
2:03.8	Iamitsu. Now, Iamitsu was very careful not to openly subordinate himself to the emperor too much.
2:11.3	In particular, he had the emperor come to him once he reached Kyoto, and everything going to
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