Friday Night History

On family lines, ninjas, and that other time the Tokugawa Shogunate went to war outside Japan.

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Sometimes, research throws you a curveball.

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This week on Friday Night History: born of hard times, still a fixture, this is the story of Nanbu Senbei. Support this podcast: subscribe at Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)

A teaser for the next trio of episodes, in which we go to Aomori Prefecture.

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This week on Friday Night History: How could you tell you were looking at the Date family's alternate-attendance procession? The smoke, it's the smoke.

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This week on Friday Night History: What if you put okonomiyaki on a stick?

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This week on Friday Night History: how did someone in Sendai send mail to Edo? The answer may surprise you!

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It's been a hot minute. Let's catch up.

This week on Friday Night History: So what do you do when you're an overworked Heian-era bureaucrat out in the proverbial ass end of nowhere, and part of your work involves having to visit your province's shrines? Well, you make a shrine aggregator.

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This week on Friday Night History, "Boshin War, Part Six - Saga Domain and Mr. Facing Both Ways" In which we continue to talk about another contributor to the Boshin War's victorious coalition, the northern Kyushu domain of Saga.

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