Truth and Myth: A History of the SamuraiConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 985, Segment 2
May 3, 2021 • 16m
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”