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Your favorite weekly historical romp! Hosted by Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian
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Look information about the past and that the people would like to know
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Ever wonder what order Japanese eras went in, and where most of our coverage sits in them? Let me get you situated. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme i…
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Episode 93 (S3E27)- The Range on the Range
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If you live in Sendai, sometimes you hear thunder coming from the north on a clear day. Why? Listen on. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by Per…
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Episode 92 (S3E26)- Bering Into History
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Hey, remember that time that the first Russo-Japanese interaction happened in Sendai domain's version of Australia? Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" b…
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Episode 91 (S3E25)- Skepticism and Diligence
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On Russo-Japanese relations, cartography, calendars, and how much and yet how little Wikipedia has changed in 20 years. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by P…
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Here's what you need to know. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 90 (S3E24)- Tamura Osaru, Hunter
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On heirs, hunters, and men named after monkeys who know the terrain and accomplish impossible things. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0…
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On hunters, hound dogs, Hachiko, and highly interconnected regions on the edges of Japan. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0…
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Special Episode: Weekend at Bakufu's
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This week on #FridayNightHistory is my favorite from the archive of members' episodes, and my second favorite FNH so far: the actual for real no-joke zombie daimyo story "Weekend at Bakufu's." Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall…
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Smugglers, snark, and a solution to a dispute between two feudal domains that was found between large, artificial mounds. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, …
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Episode 87 (S3E21)- The Hino Peach Garden Oath
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Three farm boys from Tama County read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and swear an oath. What becomes of them? Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0…
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A trailer for Friday Night History as the podcast enters the homestretch to Episode 100 Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)…
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Episode 86 (S3E20)- An Introduction to the Gosanke and Gosankyo
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On heirs and spares in the Edo period as prelude for later things taking flight. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)…
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Episode 85 (S3E19)- Guns from Ginseng
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On guns, ginseng, and cake (yes, cake) in the leadup to the Boshin War. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)…
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Episode 84 (S3E18)- Yokoo Tosaku Goes South
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On empires, explorers, and stories that end in strange places. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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In Memoriam- Dr. Richard J. Smethurst
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A special episode in memoriam of my doctoral advisor, who taught me how to challenge the historical status quo, exhorted me to be bold, and earned my loyalty by his humility and love of old, beautiful things. [click here for the associated blogpost with photography] Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon…
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Episode 83 (S3E17)- The Sendai Horse Market
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On horses, heritage, highways, and Tohoku reaching across two oceans. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 82 (S3E16)- Horsing Around with the Dolls
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On horses, dolls, and horses that are dolls. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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On fictions, footwear, and finding enlightenment. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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On passports, Paris, and people lost in the documents. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0) Update, 29 March: This episode has been updated slightly because of an oversight in the origi…
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Episode 79 (S3E13)- Sode no Watari
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On poetic allusions, places beyond the road's end, and people who vibe like their heroes. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 78 (S3E12)- Tsuriishi Shrine and the River's North Fork
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On stones, shrines, and spectacular views. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 77 (S3E11)- Ishinomaki and the Thousand Koku Ships
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On shipping, shipbuilding and Ishinomaki sailors accidentally circumnavigating the globe. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 76 (S3E10)- Kawamura Magobe'e Builds a River
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On rivers, sages, and a world-class port. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 75 (S3E9)- The Church in the Delta
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On syncretism, samurai, and a church in the Kitakami delta. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 74 (S3E8)- The Nanatsumori Hills
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On geography, legends, and how the land remembers. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 73 (S3E7)- Back Home at the Castle
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On castles, cranes, terrain, and what remains. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 72 (S3E6)- Samurai Codes and Neo-Confucian Dogma
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On bushido, BS, and Neo-Confucian dogma. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 71 (S3E5)- Square Coin, Square Hole
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On famine, finance, and the numismatic equivalent of glitter. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 70 (S3E4)-Samurai Behaving Badly
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On vassalage, the fickle nature of samurai loyalty, and why one family was so extra that its internal dispute got turned into a kabuki. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 69 (S3E3)- Loopholes, Castles, and Shogunate Law
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On Shogunate law, loopholes, and Sendai Domain's dozens of castles that weren't. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 68 (S3E2)- Paying Taxes in Crickets
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On nature, poetry, conspicuous consumption, matchlock guns, and one little species of cricket that lives in modern Sendai. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0, also appearing was "Cricket Chirp," from Pixabay.com/music)
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Episode 67 (S3E1)- Honorable Beggars
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On Meiji-era Istanbul, crowdfunding 19th century Armenian style, and how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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On crickets, castle loopholes, Samurai Behaving Badly, and what to expect in Friday Night History Season 3. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 66 (S2E33)- Ninja vs Buchanan
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On the antebellum US Navy, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and that time a ninja went to the White House and met James Buchanan. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 65 (S2E32)- The Introduction of Coffee
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By patron request, an old Twitter thread remade into a podcast: on the introduction of coffee to Japan. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 64 (S2E31)- Coast Defense and Coffee
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On Russian expansionism, Japanese coast defense policy, and coffee as medicine. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 63 (S2E30)- Shogunate versus Predator
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OKAY, I GUESS WE'RE DOING THIS, YOU GUYS. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Episode 62 (S2E29)- Tairadate Battery
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On coast artillery, the Tsugaru peninsula, and why inadequate preparation is not the same as no preparation. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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On one lesser-known woman in command, Tsugaru Tamenobu as an opportunist asshole, reading between the lines in local history, and why you shouldn't trust Wikipedia. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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From Fujishiro to Wakkanai: Friday Night History does Tsugaru Domain
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On what to expect over the next set of episodes, and what this all has to do with coffee. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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On one daimyo with an unlikely connection to a famous incident, and how he passed an overabundance of downtime through the briefly illegal activity of fishing. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Part two on family lines, ninjas, and that other time the Tokugawa Shogunate went to war outside Japan. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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On family lines, ninjas, and that other time the Tokugawa Shogunate went to war outside Japan. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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Sometimes, research throws you a curveball. Subscribe to Riversidewings on Patreon, or buy some merch at Fourthwall. (Theme is "Ohayashi" by PeriTune, CC4.0)
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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)
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A teaser for the next trio of episodes, in which we go to Aomori Prefecture. (theme is "Ohayashi," from PeriTune, CC4.0)
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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. Support this podcast: buy my books Grey Dawn: A Tale of Abolition and Union and Confluence: A Person-Shaped Story, and consider becoming a regular patron at patreon.com/riversidewings…
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Episode 54 (S2E21)- Waffle on a Stick
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This week on Friday Night History: What if you put okonomiyaki on a stick? Support this podcast: buy my books Grey Dawn: A Tale of Abolition and Union and Confluence: A Person-Shaped Story, and consider becoming a regular patron at patreon.com/riversidewings
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Episode 53 (S2E20)- The Mail Carrier Cometh
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This week on Friday Night History: how did someone in Sendai send mail to Edo? The answer may surprise you! Support this podcast: buy my books Grey Dawn: A Tale of Abolition and Union and Confluence: A Person-Shaped Story, and consider becoming a regular patron at patreon.com/riversidewings
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