Truth and Myth: A History of the Samurai
Constant Wonder - Season 2022, Episode 985 , Segment 2
The Shipwrecked Englishman Who Became a Samurai
Episode: The Shipwrecked Englishman Who Became a Samurai
- May 3, 2021 6:00 pm
- 15:58 mins
The history of the samurai is actually much more complicated and nuanced than we realize. Sometimes being a samurai meant having a desk job. Sometimes it meant changing the fate of nations. Guest: Michael Wert, Associate Professor of East Asian History at Marquette University and author of “Samurai: A Concise History”