Episode 382 - Flipping the Script

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week, we're going to stay in the Sengoku but take a step away from all this samurai action to ask: what's everybody else up to? From farmers in the countryside enjoying the fruits of a more commercialized economy (while fearing being raided by marauding armies) to merchant towns asserting their authority against warlords, it's a fascinating look into a neglected piece of the era's history.

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0:00.0	Hello, all. Isaac from the History of Japan podcast here, and I wanted to let you all know about the
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1:11.7	I look forward to seeing you all there.
1:36.5	Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 382, flipping the script.
1:42.0	So y'all have probably noticed by now that I love talking about the Sengoku period.
1:45.5	Given its prominence in Japanese cultural production,
1:50.9	it was one of the first eras of Japanese history I ever learned anything substantial about,
1:57.1	and it is, as we've established by now, chock full of great stories and fun narratives and cool little historical rabbit holes we can dive down, it's just fun.
2:04.2	But I remember, as an undergraduate, a moment of realization,
2:07.2	when my teacher in my intro to Japanese history course,
2:09.3	shout out, by the way, to Dr. William Johnston,
2:11.2	one of the best people I've ever worked with,
2:13.3	he pointed out something to all of us.
2:16.4	Our focus when we look at the Sengoku era,
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