Historian and host of the Gone Medieval podcast Matt Lewis ranks the most famous weapons from the medieval period. From the ...

The samurai warrior has come to symbolize Japan’s medieval period of social and political unrest that lasted ... a time span overlapping the late Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa periods. The lessons ...

Continuities in this transition such as: Proto-industrialization in the Tokugawa era sets the stage for Meiji industrial development. The elite samurai remain in leadership, wielding power behind the ...

One finding indicates that Japanese artisans were involved in embroidery for the dress, one of several worn by the consort to Emperor Meiji ... of the Kyoto-based Medieval Japanese Studies ...