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Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 274, The House of Cards, part two.

At the end of last week's episode, I promised a discussion of how war worked in this era, so let's tackle that first.

We spent last week talking about all these battles, what did they actually look like?

The short answer is, to our eyes, unrecognizable.

The objectives of samurai during these battles in this period

was in many ways quite different from how you or I

would understand a battle.

This was not war fought with the goal of

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