This week on Friday Night History, "Dancing Through the Siege." In which the creative and off-the-wall solution breaks through a siege during the Boshin War!

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Thanks for an amazing 2021. Here's to 2022!

No podcast this week, owing to the Christmas holiday and real-world obligations. Happy Holidays, and we will be back next week.

A return to form! This week on Friday Night History, "Yamakawa Kenjirō Wins." For pictures and references, and a word about the recent hiatus, check out the entry at patreon.com/riversidewings.

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In Cleyera: Conversations on Shinto Episode 2, Zoe (Cora) and I talk about Shinto shrines, terms, some ways that shrines are created, and what shrines are and are not.

This week on Friday Night History: Reviewing "A Samurai in the Vatican."

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This week on Friday Night History: Dance and the Gods, Part One.

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This week on Friday Night History: A Retrospective on One Year of the Podcast!

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This week on #FridayNightHistory: Dance and the Gods, an Introduction to a series on Miwa-ryu, a northern tradition of ritual dance at Shinto shrines. (UPDATED 29 October owing to a technical error that cut off several minutes of audio in the original upload)

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Welcome, #FridayNightHistory listeners, to the first episode of Cleyera: Conversations on Shinto. Zoe (Cora) and I, two friends and practitioners of Shinto in the anglosphere, talk about their faith, its cultural, historical, and other contexts, and try to bring knowledge and community to others.

In this inaugural episode, we talk about some major terms relevant to Shinto, questions of Great Nature and kegare, discuss some of where we're coming from, and touch on some directions for future discussions.

This week on Friday Night History: Jōgezan

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