Episode 250 - Today is the Victory

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week, we take on the legend of Miyamoto Musashi. How is it that a person we know very little about came to be a legend? Could it be, perhaps, that the very fact that we know so little about him for sure is part of the allure of his legend?

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0:49.3	up the victory. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast.
1:11.2	Episode 250, Today is the Victory.
1:16.6	One of my favorite things to think about in history is the idea of great people.
1:21.3	Every culture has them, these figures who loom larger than life, whose stories become popular
1:26.4	cultural touchtones.
1:28.2	Hell, we've covered quite a few on this very show.
1:32.0	What I really enjoy thinking about with these characters is a sort of twofold process.
1:37.0	First, there's the historical detective work that always goes into separating the verifiable
1:42.1	reality of a historical person from the legend that grows
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