Japan
From the Archives–Samurai: The Last Warrior
I’m currently embroiled in proofreading the endnotes for The Dragon From Chicago. It’s a headache-inducing job, but it is the one part of the book in which no one can catch the errors except the writer. (Probably the person who made one of them. ) Instead of hoping I pick up speed and can squeeze…
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From the Archives – Blown Away: The (Attempted) Mongol Invasion of Japan
Sometimes life makes it impossible to write blog posts on a dependable basis. This is one of the those times. For the next little while, I’m going to run pieces from September and October five or six years past. I hope you enjoy them, and I’ll be back as soon as I can. From September,…
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Stranger in the Shogun’s City
One of the major challenges historians face when writing about the lives of non-elite women of the past is the absence of sources. Sources written by men that describe their lives are rare. Those written by the women themselves are rarer yet. Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, by historian…
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