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Episode 356 - Women in Edo Japan

History of Japan

English - September 18, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes - 49.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 597 ratings
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This week: how do historians learn about the lives of everyday people? Let's take a look at how it's done by thinking about a group of people often overlooked in histories of the Edo period even though they made up half the population: women.

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