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Indeed.com slash show. Terms and conditions apply. Hello and welcome to the history of Japan podcast, episode 594, Kohl Colmase World, Part 1.

One of the fun things about doing this podcast for such a long time is that once you

discover one interesting resource, it can lead you to all kinds of cool places.

You might recall a few years back, I did a two-parter based on Dr. Amy Stanley's book Stranger

in the Shogun City, that's episodes 456 and 457 specifically. That book is the reconstruction

of the life of a peasant woman named Suneno during the early to mid-1800s based on her

correspondence with her family.

It's a well-written book both because Dr. Stanley herself is an excellent researcher and writer,

and because the book does something that until pretty recently was relatively rare

in scholarship on Japanese history, especially English-language scholarship.

You see, for a very long time, history focused on women, their lives, their experiences,

their contribution to Japanese and world history, was pretty thin on the ground for a couple

of reasons. First, of course, there's good old-fashioned misogyny, the assumption that women's history

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