Examines various current events along with historical facts
Examines various current events along with historical facts
In period dramas set in the Edo period (1603-1868), the standard job of ronin (浪人 or 牢人, masterless samurai) is, above all, reupholstering umbrellas. Many people have probably seen the scene where a ronin brushes glue onto a bamboo frame and…
Sakoku (locked or closed country) refers to the isolationist policy implemented during the reign of the third Tokugawa Shogunate shogun, Iemitsu (1604~1651), in the Edo period (1603~1868), which restricted Japanese travel abroad and the arrival of foreign ships with the…
Seppuku (Harakiri) is the act of cutting one’s own stomach with a short sword in order to die with dignity and honor, and was used by samurai (bushi) as a method of suicide or execution, and many people may have…