This week on Friday Night History: Kashikobuchi. A yokai, the Hirose River, and a strange convergence with real-world higher education in central Sendai. This episode was recorded before a live audience at twitch.tv/riversidewings.

(A quick note at the top here. This week's episode focuses on the folktale of the jorogumo of Kashikobuchi. This being was a benevolent, supernatural spider being who lived on the banks of the Hirose River. I won't be including images of spiders, nor will I be namedropping the word spider itself beyond a brief, cursory mention. This is because jorogumo are jorogumo, not real-world arachnids. Still, if you need to stop listening, please feel free, and I will see you next week. Please, friend, now more than ever, be good to yourself.)

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