Truth and Myth: A History of the Samurai

Truth and Myth: A History of the Samurai

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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”