Samurai Archives Japanese History Podcast

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EP118 Military History and Japanese Studies P1 Oct 17, 2015

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In this episode, Nate talks about the intersection of Military history and Japanese studies in the USA and the West. He also gives a rundown of the history of Military History, as well as what it is and how it has changed over the decades. Part one of two.

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Farris, Willam Wayne. Japan's Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age Univ of Hawaii Pr (August 1, 2009) http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/detail/0824834240

Spafford, David. A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan Harvard University Asia Center; 1 edition (September 9, 2013) http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/detail/0674726731

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EP117 Samurai Clans, Houses, and Families P2 Sep 21, 2015

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Samurai would go to great lengths to protect and glorify their names in action and in battle. In this episode, we look at the value placed on the Samurai "name" in the context of individuals, clans, Samurai houses, and families. We also look at the corporation-like structure of Sengoku period Samurai houses, where blood was less important than the continuation of the "name". This is part two of two.

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Mentioned in this podcast:

Spafford, David. What’s in a Name?: House Revival, Adoption, and the Bounds of Family in Late Medieval Japan Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies Volume 74, Number 2, December 2014 pp. 281-329 https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/harvard_journal_of_asiatic_studies/toc/jas.74.2.html

Spafford, David. A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan Harvard University Asia Center; 1 edition (September 9, 2013) http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/detail/0674726731

Murakami, Yasusuke. Ie Society as a Pattern of Civilization Journal of Japanese Studies 10, no. 2 (1984): 279-363

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EP116 Samurai Clans, Houses, and Families P1 Aug 31, 2015

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Mentioned in this podcast:

Spafford, David. A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan Harvard University Asia Center; 1 edition (September 9, 2013) http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/detail/0674726731

Murakami, Yasusuke. Ie Society as a Pattern of Civilization Journal of Japanese Studies 10, no. 2 (1984): 279-363

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EP115 Wind, Forest, Fire, and Mountain: Resource Management in the Takeda Domain P2 Aug 17, 2015

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In part two of our conversation with UCSB PhD candidate and Environmental Historian Elijah Bender, we continue our discussion of the resource management of Kai province, and look at how it was dealt with at the provincial level by the Daimyo.

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Mentioned in this podcast:

Farris, Willam Wayne. Japan's Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age Univ of Hawaii Pr (August 1, 2009) http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/detail/0824834240

Shapinsky, Peter. Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (2014) http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/detail/1929280815

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EP114 Wind, Forest, Fire, and Mountain: Resource Management in the Takeda Domain P1 Jul 27, 2015

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In this episode, we have a great conversation with UCSB PhD candidate and Environmental Historian Elijah Bender. Elijah's focus is on resource management in Kai province, the domain of the Takeda clan and Takeda Shingen.

The discussion ranges from how resource issues effect people at the local level to the highest levels of the Takeda clan, and how the management of resources effect all levels of planning and decision making for a Sengoku Daimyo. This episode is part one of our discussion, and part two will follow in about two weeks.

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Mentioned in this podcast:

Roberts, Luke. Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan Univ of Hawaii Pr; First Edition edition (January 31, 2012) http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/detail/0824835131

Spafford, David. A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan Harvard University Asia Center; 1 edition (September 9, 2013) http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/detail/0674726731

Vlastos, Stephen. Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan University of California Press (August 16, 1990) http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/detail/0520072030

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EP113 You Can't Spell "Bushido" Without "Bull" Jul 08, 2015

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There's a good chance that everything you know about Bushido is wrong.

In this episode, which is a rebroadcast of an episode that was done for the Martial Thoughts podcast, Nate talks about the history, progression, and roots of the "code", concept, and mythology of Bushido - the Way of the Samurai.

Mentioned in this podcast:

Benesch, Oleg. Inventing the Way of the Samurai Oxford University Press; 1 edition (November 11, 2014) http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/detail/0198706626

Nitobe, Inazo. Bushido, the Soul of Japan CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 13 edition (February 10, 2013) http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/detail/1482509733

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EP112 "What If" and Japanese History - BONUS EPISODE 9 Jun 29, 2015

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In this episode, Chris and Forest look at the utility of asking "What If...?" about events in Japanese history. Some people love it, some people hate it, but can one find value in the intellectual enterprise of asking "what if"?

In an attempt to see if there is value to the historian in asking what if, they look at Nobunaga's death and ask, "What if Oda Nobunaga hadn't died? What would have changed, what would have stayed the same?"

Mentioned in this podcast:

Ferguson, Niall. The Pitty of War Basic Books; New edition edition (March 3, 2000) http://amzn.to/1C0lsLP

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EP111 Revisiting the Military Revolution Theory P2 Jun 14, 2015

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In part two of our revisitation of the Military Revolution theory we continue our look at the 2013 artilcle 'Military Revolution ini Early Modern Japan' by Matthew Stavros that looks at applying the Military Revolution theory to Japan's Sengoku period to explain the military advances and expansion. We previously talked in detail about the Military Revolution theory in Episodes #1 and #2.

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Mentioned in this podcast:

Morillo, Stephen. Guns and Government: A Comparative Study of Europe and Japan Journal of World History, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 75-106

Stavros, Matthew. Military Revolution in Early Modern Japan Japanese Studies, Vol 33, Issue 3, 2013

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EP110 Revisiting the Military Revolution Theory P1 May 27, 2015

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In this episode, we revisit the Military Revolution theory with A Short History of Japan's Cameron Foster. We look at the 2013 artilcle 'Military Revolution ini Early Modern Japan' by Matthew Stavros that looks at applying the Military Revolution theory to Japan's Sengoku period to explain the military advances and expansion. We previously talked in detail about the Military Revolution theory in Episodes #1 and #2.

Mentioned in this podcast:

Morillo, Stephen. Guns and Government: A Comparative Study of Europe and Japan Journal of World History, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 75-106

Stavros, Matthew. Military Revolution in Early Modern Japan Japanese Studies, Vol 33, Issue 3, 2013

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EP109 Orientalism and Ideology May 12, 2015

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This episode we speak to scholar, philosopher, and PhD candidate Jesse Workman about the history of the concept of "Orientalism" - essentially the idea that one's culture, background, religion, and/or ideology can infect one's scholarship as it pertains to other cultures - and that in the past particularly, this resulted in extremely patronizing and biased scholarship of other cultures and religions. We examine Orientalism in the context of Jesse's specialty of philosophy and religion, and in general in academia, and expand the conversation to the effects of personal politics and ideology in academia.

Mentioned in this podcast:

Said, Edward. Orientalism Vintage; 1st Vintage Books ed edition (October 12, 1979) http://amzn.to/1Fhc33k

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