Episode 405 - The Road Not Taken
Episode 405 - The Road Not Taken  
Podcast: History of Japan
Published On: Fri Sep 10 2021
Description: This week, we're talking about one of the last attempts to save the Tokugawa shogunate: the Tenpo Reforms of the 1840s, and their chief architect, the hard-partying Mizuno Tadakuni. What did he see as the most pressing problems Japan faced? How did he try to solve them? And how did this final attempt to salvage Tokugawa rule fail so badly? Show notes here.