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Hello, and welcome to the History of Japan podcast. Episode 128, the Fall of the Samurai,

Part 11.

First of all, just to clear this up, no, you haven't gone crazy the theme music didn't play

this time.

Or maybe you have gone crazy, but it has nothing to do with the podcast theme music.

Unfortunately, the motherboard on the desktop I usually use to record has gone up to the great

junkyard in the sky, and as a result, the files that I normally keep the intro and outro

music stored in are not accessible until my new motherboard shows up.

Fortunately, I still have a way to record, but for the next couple episodes, we're going

to have to make do without the opening and closing music, so I apologize for that.

We left things off last week at the end of 1864, at a moment of Tokugawa ascendancy.

Choshu had been humbled, the Mito Rebellion brought to heal, a shishi attack on Kyoto foiled,

and it seemed the Tokugawa Bakufu had weathered the storm.

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