Episode 241 - All in the Family, Part 3

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This week, we conclude our up close look at the Shimazu family and Satsuma domain with a consideration of how the domain fit into Edo society, and its position in modern Japan.

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0:49.2	the podcasts. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 241, All in the Family, Part 3.
1:14.5	When you get into the really granular histories of specific samurai families and the domains they
1:19.9	ruled during the Tokugawa Age of Peace, a strange sort of dumbbell curve usually appears.
1:26.8	What I mean by that is that a great deal of time and
1:29.7	energy is expended talking about the family during the early days of Tokugawa rule and about their
1:35.9	role in the end of Tokugawa hegemony. The middle period, meanwhile, tends to get left relatively
1:41.4	alone, and to be fair, there's very good reason for that.
1:45.8	When we get away from grand, sweeping politics and focus on the nitty-gritty of daily life
1:50.5	in a domain, things can get granular in a way that's very hard to follow unless you're really
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