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Episode 451 - Those Swept Away
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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Aug 26, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
This week, the biography of one of the most unusual figures of Bakumatsu Japan: the peasant Matsuo Taseko, whose career as a member of the imperial loyalist movement defied conventions of gender and defies neat categorization today. Show notes here.
Released:
Aug 26, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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