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For the first regular episode of the year (excepting our New Year's recap) we take a look at the New Year Traditions at Temmu's court.  How did the court celebrate the New Year in the late 7th century? For more, check out our blogpost:  https://sengokudaimyo.com/podcast/episode-141 Rough Transcript: Welcome to Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan.  My name is Joshua and this is episode 141: Temmu's New Year's Traditions   The chill winter air meant that most of the assembled crowd had donned multiple layers of robes.  Men and women had assembled together, upon the open, rock-covered courtyard, both to see and be seen.  To the north and east of the courtyard were the walls and gates of the buildings that made up the royal palace, the rooves of the buildings just visible beyond the gates. The onlookers stood arrayed around the open lanes that had been created for the event—at one end of the rocky field were targets, while at the other were archers, also arrayed in their finest outfits.  While technically they wore hunting robes, cut to allow greater movement in the arm, many of these fabrics had no business being anywhere near a moor or the dirt of open fields.  After all, this wasn't just some hunt:  They were demonstrating their skills in the center of the State.  At the officials' command, the archers let loose their arrows.  The crowd murmured at the soft crack of the bowstring, the faint whisper of arrow as the fletchings cut through the air, and the thud as the arrows struck their targets.  Looking downrange, approval bubbled through the crowd: the targets were well-struck.  Behind the archers on the field, another group awaited their turn. The events of the day would be the talk of the court, from the lowest clerk to the highest prince , for days to come.   Not just the well-placed shot, but also the grace and poise of the one who had let loose an arrow of particular note.  And heaven forbid an arrow miss its target.  Even kicking up stones or scraping the earth could have negative social consequences.  A particularly good showing could inspire poetry, and beyond the prizes being offered to the winner, could also bring notice to those from more obscure backgrounds. The new year had just started, and a good performance might be just what was needed to help put the rest of the year on a good footing.     Welcome back!  This is the first episode of the new year, 2026, and we are still going through the reign of Ohoama, aka Temmu Tenno, covering the period from 672 to 686. Before we get started, though, a quick shout out to Suzuki for supporting us on Patreon.  It means a lot and helps us keep this thing going.  If you would like to support us or our efforts to maintain the website, where we also have the Armor manual, clothing, and a miscellany on various topics, we have information at Sengokudaimyo.com and we will have more information at the end of this and every episode.  Support is appreciated as I really do want to try and minimize ads—I don't put any into the podcast myself, though some platforms may place ads around the podcast, which I cannot always control.  Now we've covered a lot this reign, but this episode we are going to cover three things in particular.  First off, and perhaps a bit of a tangent, we'll talk about some of the issues with the Chronicles when it comes to reading it,especially in translation.  It seems quite clear to me that even the sources that the Chroniclers were using weren't always in agreement with each other on how they spelled certain things or even in properly recording when things happened. After that we'll cover the major topics of this episode, focusing primarily on the New Year traditions of the court—we'll look at the major events of the first month for each year in the reign, allowing us to see some of the similarities, and differences. Finally, we'll look at the last year of Ohoama's reign, particularly as he grew ill, because it can be a fascinating question:  What did people do when disease struck before we had modern medicine?  Here the Chronicles reveal a lot about not only the beliefs of the time, but of their syncretism: how people were willing to reach out to whatever power they could in order to cure disease.  Whether it was Yin-yang divination, beseeching the local kami, or attempting to make merit, all of these things were on the table when it came to illness and mortality. And so, let's get into it. One of the first things I want to talk about is the problem that we have in trying to read the Chronicles, both in the way they are written and then the translation issue on top of that.  Even in Japanese the Chronicles have to be translated out of an ancient form of kanbun—basically a Japanese version of Chinese, using Sinitic characters.  Like any document written by non-native speakers, the Chronicles have their idiosyncrasies that make it different from what someone in Chang'an might be writing at the same time.  There are times and places where it is clear that something is meant to be read in the Japanese pronunciation, which itself was different from modern Japanese.  Add to this the fact that there are many times that different Sinitic characters sound alike in Japanese—especially in modern Japanese.  So any English translation of the Chronicles which doesn't give the actual characters in the source text can add to the confusion.  This is why I like to consult either the Japanese Historical Text Initiative or an electronic version of the National History series text—though even those have issues at times when the characters used in the text don't exist in modern character sets, though that seems to be less and less of a problem. One example I want to give of the complexities of reading the Chronicles, and the need to dive deeper into the original language and consult multiple versions, is a set of records for Ki no Omi no Abemaro and others.  He is our first mention of a member of the Ki family: on the 9th day of the 8th month of 673, the first year since Ohoama's ascension and one year after the Jinshin no Ran, we are told that Ki no Omi no Abemaro and others were given favors and rewards for their service during the war in Iga province.  Indeed, Ki no Omi no Abemaro is listed prominently in the records of the Jinshin no Ran and appears to have been one of the generals for Ohoama and the Yoshino faction in general.  Less than a year later, on the 28th day of the 2nd month, Ki no Omi no Abemaro died and was posthumously awarded the rank of Daishi, which was 5th from the top in the old system of 26 ranks.  A rather respectable rank, to be sure. Later that same year we get a note that Ki no Omi no KATAmaro—another member of the family, apparently--was appointed, along with a "Prince Mino" as a commissioner for the erection of the Great Temple of Takechi. Two years later, however, we get a record on the 22nd day of the 4th month of 676 that the sovereign, Ohoama, sent an order to the Governor of Mino telling him to let the children of Ki no Omi no Abemaro, resident in the district of Toki, be removed to the East country and become peasants in that country.  On the face of it, this appears to be an incredible fall from grace.  Ki no Omi no Abemaro is basically one of the top generals and heroes of the Jinshin no Ran, but his children are so unruly that they are banished to the East and stripped of their noble status?  There has to be a story there, right? Then in 679, on the 3rd day of the 2nd month, we are told that Ki no Omi no Katamaro died.  For his service in the Jinshin War he received the posthumous rank of Upper Daikin.  That would have been roughly the 7th rank—two below Ki no Abemaro.  So was the Ki family back in the good graces of the court?  What is going on? First off, when we go to the original text, we see that Aston, whose translation of the Nihon Shoki we've been working on Ihas made an apparent error in translation.  Remember, Aston was translating the Chronicles back in 1896, without the aid of modern computers, along with a lot of other research that has happened since then, and I can hardly fault him for missing things here and there.  This is why, if you cannot check the original, you may want to also look at the new translation from John Bentley.  Here we can see that he translates the name not as "Ki no Omi no Abemaro", but rather that of "Ki no Omi no KASAmaro".  And if we compare Ki no Omi no KaSAmaro with the previous entry on Ki no Omi no KaTAmaro we can see that these are actually the exact same names except for a single character.  Which leads us to the question:  Are these the same person, and the scribes simply miswrote one of the characters in the name?  It may not even be on the Chroniclers so much as whatever texts they were, themselves, working on.  This isn't helped by the fact that we later on see another entry for Ki no KATAmaro, but that one uses character for "KATA", meaning "hard", using the kun'yomi, or Japanese reading, rather than using two phonetic characters in the on'yomi reading.  So is this just another way to write "KATAmaro" or is this a different person altogether? Ultimately, we cannot be entirely sure.  It does seem wild that there would be two "Ki no Omi no Katamaro" at court at the same time and nobody otherwise distinguished the two.  The question about KaSAmaro and KaTAmaro, and whose kids were sent into exile, is a bit harder to untangle. And, truth be told, it is ultimately a minor point.  We have only a couple of lines here, and maybe these passages will help illuminate something later in the histories, but for now, they are just fragments of the story of what was happening.  Parts of the tattered tapestry from which the royal history was ripped out and restitched together, the rest of the story largely discarded, unless it made its way to us through other means. The Chronicles may be flawed, but they are still our main source for the period, and while we might challenge individual items, we still get a glimpse at how things operated back at this time.  For instance, if we look at the events happening around the New Year, we can see some common threads. The New Year is an important tradition in many cultures.  Whether it was a solar or lunar cycle—or some combination—the new year indicated a new cycle, and was often accompanied by associated symbols and rituals.  Today in the US it is often celebrated with fireworks and champagne, followed by making resolutions for the new year.  In Japan, people will often go to their local shrine or temple for an important first visit, and temple bells will ring out 108 times. Another tradition is the osechi-ryori, the  traditional new years foods.  This has grown over time from a tradition of eating a large bowl of rice to various other foods that are seen as auspicious or having special properties, such as the hardening of teeth—a major concern before the era of modern dental hygiene!  Then there are traditions such as the Kagami Biraki, or opening of the mirror, and the creation of special mochi, or rice cakes for the purpose.  Of course all of these traditions started somewhere and have evolved over time, so what do we know about the New Year celebrations during the late 7th century? One caveat: in the Chronicles, we only really see what was happening in the court, and the Yamato court at that.  There may have been local traditions that others were following that, unless we find documentation about them, we likely would never know.  But many of the court traditions were passed down to later generations. These traditions appear to include the giving of gifts; large, celebratory banquets; and the annual archery tournament. Banquets are some of the first and most common things we see.  We see a banquet as Ohoama assumed the throne in 673—which probably was the event that overshadowed anything else they might have done that year.  The following year, 674, there doesn't seem to have been much recorded, and I wonder if they were still pulling everything together after the turmoil of Ohoama's ascension.  And so it is that in the first month of 675 we really get to see the annual new year's events in their full form.  On the second day of that year, from the Royal Princes on down, all of the public functionaries presented their respects to the sovereign.  I suspect that this was a large ceremony, where everyone gathered in the courtyard of the palace together or something similar, not that each person individually went up and presented their respects—I doubt Ohoama would have wanted to sit through all of that.  Also, as we've already seen, there were limits on what parts of the palace different functionaries were allowed to enter.  So some of these well-wishers may have been "outside", others in the courtyard, and others in the palace building itself, depending on their rank and importance in the bureaucratic hierarchy. On the following day, all public functionaries, from the initial rank upwards, presented firewood.  Aston notes that this is the first mention of what would become a yearly practice.  Firewood may not seem like much, but it would have likely been important to keeping things running, especially given how early people were supposed to arrive at the palace and administrative complex each day.  This wasn't firewood for a fireplace—they didn't have those—but probably would have been used either for cooking or, I suspect, for the large braziers that burned with wood and pitch to light the darkness, particularly in the winter months.  Firewood could also be processed into smaller pieces of coal for other uses.  It is interesting that for the first ceremony, the Chronicles describe the court from the Royal Princes on down, while for the giving of firewood the order is from the initial—which is to say the lowest—ranks upwards.  This could indicate the order in which things progressed in these cases. Several days after that, on the 7th day of the first month, a banquet was given at court for the Ministers—so only the higher ranking functionaries.  But ten days later, on the 17th, everyone of rank—the Ministers of State; the Daibu, or high officials; and all of the public functionaries from the initial rank upwards had an archery meeting in the Court of the Western Gate. Archery and archery contests had been important to the Yamato people for ages—and the same on the continent.  Confucius, in his day, suggested that archery was a martial skill that even nobles should cultivate.  I believe we've noted before how archery could be used both for warfare and for just feeding your family.  As such, it was considered a particularly useful skill for just about everyone to have.  It probably also helped that it was a martial skill that noblemen and others could use to show off without actually risking any injury to themselves in the process.  I'm just saying.  And as we described at the top of the episode, this particular archery contest would, for both participants and spectators, likely have been a chance to show off the top of their game, whether in martial prowess, clothing, or behavior. And since we are looking at the new year's celebrations, let's keep this going and look at later years in Ohoama's reign. As I go through these you'll start to see the patterns, where the events I've just described will generally recur year after year, but not identically, sometimes with a shuffle in the schedule. In 676, we see that the Ministers and public functionaries pay their respects on the first day of the new year.  On the 4th day, the sovereign granted gifts to the higher level officials, from Royal Prince Takechi, down to the high officials, or Daibu, of Shoukin rank.  Their not so secret Santa gifts included robes, hakama, lined garments, obi for their waist, leg straps, and staves, or walking sticks.  We are also told that everyone above the rank of Shoukin also got an armrest thrown in, as well.  Further gifts or grants were given out several days later, on the 7th, to everyone from Shoukin on up, based on their individual circumstances.  Then, on the 15th, we again see all of the functionaries present firewood and then they were all entertained at a court banquet. The following day they held the annual new year's archery contest, with prizes, at the court of the western gate.  Those who hit the target received prizes of different values.  In his recent translation of the Nihon Shoki, Bentley references Kuroita on Article 41 of Miscellaneous Statutes, saying that this archery event was apparently a regular new year's occurrence, and even the prizes were noted as varying over time. The same day they held the archery contest, that year, Ohoama held a banquet at the Shima Palace.  Shima was the name given to the Soga Prime Minister, back in the day, so I assume that this was at or near the site of the old Soga residence? In 677, by comparison, we don't see nearly as much referenced.  There is archery at the South Gate, vice the west gate, but that is it.  The festivities in 678 similarly only talk about the archery at the south gate.  There is also mention of a preparation for worshipping the kami of heaven and earth, for which a purification was held throughout the state.  In addition, an abstinence palace, or saiguu, was erected on the bank of the Kurahashi river.  Kurahashi appears to refer to a tributary of the Ohara river, in Sakurai.  This feels less like a New Year's celebration, however, and more like a sign of merit-making.  The Saiguu would have likely been to prepare for a trip to Ise shrine, and three months later Ohoama was preparing to go to the Saiguu, but that is when Princess Towochi suddenly died, and they scuttled the plans. In 679, the court greeted the New Year with a new decree.  Ohoama declared that Princes, Ministers, and public functionaries—anyone in service to the government, basically, were to refrain from paying respects during New Years or other ceremonies to anyone except relatives of the grade of elder brother, elder sister, and above, or to the senior members of the Houses.  Princes weren't even to pay respects to their own mothers unless they were, themselves, princesses.  Ministers were likewise not to pay respects to their mothers if they were of "mean" rank.  In other words, if they were commoners. These kinds of statutes are interesting.  First of all, you ask yourself why?  In all likelihood, there were various local traditions and individuals paid respects to their parents as well as to others to whom they owed respect for one reason or another.  Here the State is ordering society such that there is a clear hierarchy, at least among the members of the court.   Since women often found advancement by marrying up, it was usual for one's mother to have been born a lower rank in society than oneself.  And so we see them enforcing the social order. That new order was based on Confucian concepts of hierarchy, and this seems to go along with those same ideas. What we don't really see is how this was enforced—if at all.  The day after that, the yearly archery competition took place at the West Gate of the palace. The next year, 680, we see a New Year's Banquet at the Court of the Great Hall.  Ohoama himself occupied the Mukai-kodono, which appears to refer to one of the smaller wings.  Based on the palace layout that we see in the posthole remains, this probably means that he was set up in the smaller wing, likely in a more intimate space, while most of the other guests were in the large hall, maintaining that crucial separation of sovereign and subjects. This New Year's archery event included Princes of the Blood all the way down to the rank of Shouken—the very lowest rank in the court—and it was held at the South Gate. You may be noticing a pattern, that the archery competition is listed as being held at either the south or west gates.  The south gate probably refers to the main gate of the later Okamoto—aka the Kiyomihara—palace.  The West gate refers to the west gate of the Ebinoko enclosure.   We talked about these and the general layout of the palace back in Episode 134, and you can check out that podcast blog post for some images of what things looked like, as well.  These gates were on the north and east sides of a large, rectangular courtyard, which was likely the actual event location.  So it isn't as if these were separate areas, just a difference of where things were set up in what was otherwise the same relative space. The following year, 681, we see similar ceremonies.  We see offerings made to the kami of Heaven and Earth, and we once again see a note about various functionaries paying their respects at court.  Even though this wasn't mentioned every year, it could have been an annual thing and just wasn't always recorded so the Chroniclers just wrote down what they had records for.  There are certainly other things we don't necessarily witness in the records, such as the annual promotions and promulgations.  We see irregular promotions, of course, such as on someone's passing, but the regular administration of the government and promotions of people to new positions is not something we really see regularly documented, since it doesn't really shed much light on the sovereign and the royal household.  And so we sometimes see things if they get mentioned, but otherwise we only see glimpses.  That would change as records became more administrative and the histories were more about simply recording what was happening—though still from a particular angle.  At this point, however, we aren't dealing with a single court record, but rather with numerous records, stories, and recollections.  That same year, 681, we also see another banquet, with Ohoama situated in the Mukai no Kodono, while the Princes of the Blood and non-royal Princes were both introduced into the inner reception chamber.  Ministers attended in the outer reception chamber.  They all received sake and musical performances, and rank advancements were given out.  Kusakabe no Kihi no Ohogata was graduated from the rank of Upper Daisen to Lower Daikin, and given the title of Naniwa no Muraji.  A few days later, Sakahibe no Muraji no Iwazumi was granted a fief with 60 horses and received presents of coarse silk, floss silk, cloth, and one hundred mattocks—the last one being a rather interesting gift, I have to admit.  Of course, in true Chronicles fashion, we have no idea why these gifts were made—we don't even have another reference to Iwazumi around there, but he must have done something. We are later told that there was the annual archery shoot, and then a decree, possibly unrelated to New Years, that the various provinces were ordered to repair the shrines to the kami of heaven and earth. The year 682 is an anomaly.  There is no mention of a banquet, nor of an archery tournament.  I wonder if this may have to do with some of the sad events of that first month.  While it started fine—Toneri no Miyatsuko no Nukamushi was raised from Daisen to Lower Shoukin—we are told that on the 18th, Lady Higami, one of Ohoama's consorts, died in the palace.  The next day there was an earthquake, and she was buried on the 27th.  A prominent illness and death may have put a pall on the ceremonies, and could explain why we don't see any mention of them for that year. It is also possible that some of this New Year tradition had become so routine that people were no longer commenting on it, and therefore the Chroniclers weren't including references to it. The following year, in 683, we again see the functionaries paying their respects.  We also see the presentation of a three legged sparrow by the Viceroy of Tsukushi, Tajihi no Mabito no Shima, along with others.  A three legged sparrow would have been something: it is reminiscent of the three legged crow, often depicted in the sun.  It is unclear if it was still alive, but that wasn't the point.  They invited the Princes of the Blood down to the Ministers to great hall, the Daigokuden, for a banquet, where the three legged sparrow was displayed. .  Later that month, Ohoama issued a decree in regards to all of the auspicious omens and made presents to everyone, from Shouken rank upwards.  There was also a general amnesty—all crimes were pardoned, from capital offenses on down, and all forced labor was remitted, so that people didn't have to provide the normal service.  The phrasing for this particular entry is intriguing.  Ohoama is mentioned as Yamato Neko Sumera no Mikoto and is specifically called a "God Incarnate".  This is one of the rare times that we see the Chronicles explicitly call out the sovereign as a living deity.  Of course, they trace the royal lineage back to Amaterasu, but there isn't a lot suggesting that the sovereign is necessarily a deity. And in reality, this was probably something that was more honorific than anything else.  Heck, at times in Japanese history we would see sovereigns selling their calligraphy to help keep the royal palace funded while warriors went around actually being in charge of things.  However, this divine language did show up in the 19th and 20th century, especially as the Tennou, now called Emperor in English terminology, once again was recognized as the Head of State, and people would actually pray to him.  Not necessarily like praying at a shrine, but out of respect.  And remember, a lot of time the Tennou was kept out of sight of regular people and hidden, much like the way that the kami were treated.  The concept of the Emperor's divinity was very much tied up in the elevation of the State and the general sense of Nationalism that had gripped Japan in the early half of the 20th century.  And so the allies quite explicitly had Emperor Showa renounce his divinity after Japan  World War II. Those studying Japanese history have probably heard of this concept, and so it is interesting to see evidence of it here, as well as the nature of the royal house, where the sovereign is kept at a distance from those of lower rank, unless they are directly serving him.  But it was not as though the sovereign was a god in the sense of being all powerful.  Even if he were considered a living, visible kami, the kami were not omnipotent, and there was no getting over the fact that our particular sovereign, Ohoama, was getting older.  Only a year or so earlier, he had suffered a rather bad illness, so he clearly was not invincible.  And it is of course possible that this language was simply royal exaggeration, rather than any attempt to define the sovereign as something more than he was.  Still, that concept would continue to play a part throughout Japanese history. The same day in 683 that Ohoama issued the pardons, we are told that there was a special performance at the Woharida Court of dance and music from Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla—the "Three Countries" of the Korean peninsula, even if only one of them was still going strong.  The Woharida palace is thought to have been north, along the banks of the Asuka River.  It may have been moved over time—there appears to have been a palace in the Furumiya area, near Toyoura, but there is also evidence of a palace by a shared name over by Ikazuchi-no-oka, on the other side of the river.  Excavations at Ikazuchi no oka revealed pottery with the name of the palace, suggesting that this was the site, but even then, that pottery was from the later Tempyo era.  Regardless, it seems that the Asuka valley was just chock full of palaces, new and old, though the older ones were not as regularly used for government functions, one assumes. The following year, 684, we again get told about the annual archery shoot.  It took place in the Eastern court this time, with Ministers in attendance.  Apparently they had men skilled in archery shooting alongside palace attendants and little people—the word used in Japanese is "Shuju" or "Hikihito".  This word is often translated as "dwarf"; it appears to be a derogatory term for anyone considered short of stature, though it is also used to refer more generally to those seen as either lacking wit or to actors and performers. This isn't the first time we see the term.  Back in 675, about 9 years prior, Ohoama had sent orders to a number of regions near the capital, from Awaji to Tamba, to Afumi and to Mino and Wohari, among others, to send as tribute common people who could sing, shuju—or dwarfs—and jugglers.  More generally they seem to be referring to entertainers, and it strikes me that could be what is meant here.  Either way, the entertainment industry was hardly a lucrative one, and we can see that performers are almost more of a commodity, to be "paid" as tribute, rather than a professional who is "hired" to work.  I suspect that, as in many other times and places, individuals who were shorter than average often found work as entertainers in this sense—whether they wished it or not. The year 685 we don't see any mention of archery, though it probably still happened.  Instead the Chronicles focus on the various government officials paying their respects to their sovereign.  The rest of the entries for the month are largely concerned with changes to the rank system as of that year. The year 686, we get the last records of various new years festivals—four months later, the sovereign would grow terribly ill, and he would eventually pass away later that year.  However, for those still celebrating the new year in 686, that was all in the future. The last year of Ohoama's reign started out relatively like others. Ohoama went to the Daigokuden, the Great Hall of Audience, and gave a banquet to the Princes and High Officials.  There he decided to have something of a riddle challenge.  He would ask riddles, and then offer prizes for the correct answer. And no, unfortunately we don't have any of the riddles, at least that I have seen.  Aston calls these "conundrums" and notes that they are specifically nonsensical questions, and provides examples such as "Why does a horse, after a rapid run, listen to the earth? Why does a dog, when he goes slowly, raise his leg?"  Ohoama's son, Prince Takechi, answered correctly, and so did Prince Ise.  Their prizes differed in content, but in both cases were pretty extensive.  The winners received ceremonial robes, brocade or purple hakama, numerous bolts of coarse silk, many pounds of thread, hundreds of pounds of flossed Silk, and hundreds of bolts of cloth. I think that makes it quite a bit more lucrative than any of the quiz nights I've ever been to. Later that month, there was another banquet, this time for nine Buddhist monks of Daikan-daiji. Besides its status as a national temple, this may have also been related to the year before, when Ohoama had fallen ill, and prayers had been offered at Daikandaiji for his recovery.  The courthad likewise provided gifts to the temple in the last month of the previous year, and then, at the banquet, gave to the attending monks silk and cloth, based on their rank. But that wasn't the end of the gifts.  The following day the Princes and High Officials all received upper garments and hakama—likely referring to official garments—each getting one suit, each. Then, on the 13th day of the new year, the court invited 20 exceptional individuals to a banquet.  These were talented people, professors, divination specialists, and physicians.  They were also wined and dined and presented various gifts. On the 16th day, the Princes and High Officials were then invited to a banquet in the Daigokuden.  They were given gifts of silk and cloth, based on their rank.  Then they held another riddle competition, with correct answers rewarded with gifts of coarse and flossed silk. This was only a short time after disaster had struck, though a bit removed—two days earlier, in the evening, the royal storehouse at Naniwa had caught fire, eventually burning the entire Toyosaki palace complex to the ground.  Some claimed that it was actually started at a private residence,  that of Ato no Muraji no Kusuri, and then spread to the Palace.  In the end, only the military storehouse was spared. This would have been quite the tragedy for the government, but it did not halt the festivities happening down in Asuka.  The Naniwa Palace appears to have been a major government center for the administration of the state, but it was not the royal court which had been in Asuka for over a decade.  Indeed, I imagine that the news probably reached Asuka around the time of the Banquet itself. And yet, rather than putting a damper on the festivities, they continued another couple of days – presumably everything was already prepared and there was no point in canceling.  On the 17th, the court sponsored a banquet in the rear palace, presumably for the Queen and members of the imperial family.  Then the following day there was a great revel at the palace.  Ohoama took his place in front of the royal muro and made presents to performers, as well as to the singers.  As before everything varied according to rank. Asuka wasn't the only place to get in on the festivities.  The same month, the court also sponsored a banquet for the Silla envoys in Tsukushi, sending Prince Kawachi and others. Regrettably, that would be the last new year that Ohoama would see.  In the fifth month, he grew ill, and what we see in the Chronicles after that is an interesting look into how people of the time dealt with sickness. First, the court had the Sutra of Yakushi expounded at Kawaradera and held a Buddhist retreat in the palace, inviting monks to come and expound Buddhist teachings.  Yakushi, or Yakushi Nyorai—Bhaisajyaguru in Sanskrit—was known as the Medicine Buddha, and his name in Sinitic characters was basically "Master of Medicine".  It is said that he was responsible for the Eastern Pure Land, and that, as a Bodhisattva, he had made 12 great vows to cure the illnesses of all living beings in the world.  For that reason, Yakushi Nyorai was often called upon to cure illness.  In fact, six years earlier, when the Queen, Uno no Sarara Hime, had taken ill, Ohoama erected an entire temple to Yakushi Nyorai, known as Yakushiji.  He then had 100 people take vows as priests, and they attributed her recovery to this effort. In this case, however, it seems that it didn't have quite such an effect, and Ohoama remained under the weather.  We are also told that the court sent Palace Attendants, the Oho-toneri, to clean the pagodas of various temples and that a general amnesty was announced for all under heaven, emptying the prisons.  All of this points to the idea of making merit in the hope of bringing good karma, and thus healing. But the following month, Ohoama was still ill.  Divination was performed by the Onmyoji, the court diviners, and they claimed that there was a curse from Kusanagi, the sword that is considered one of the three main royal symbols.  This is the sword that was said to have been found by Susanowo in the tale of Yamata no Worochi, and which gained its name, Kusanagi, when used by Yamato Takeru, cutting down the grass to save him when his enemies tried to catch him by setting fire to the field where he was hunting.  For more on that, check out Episodes 34 and 35. Given the importance of Kusanagi, I suspect that the idea of destroying it to remove the curse was out of the question, and so it was sent to Atsuta Shrine, where it was enshrined and would largely stay except when needed for enthronement ceremonies.  And yet, even after the sword was taken away, the illness remained.  Six days later, on the 16th day of the 6th month, the court sent Prince Ise and officials to Asukadera and asked the monks there to make and oath with the Buddha to make Ohoama whole through the power of the Three Treasures of Buddhism.   For their work, the three Buddhist Officers, the Master of the Law, and the Upadhyaya and temple directors, as well as those monks with the rank of "master" each received a donation of one robe and one cover, or "Ohi". Three days later, the court ordered the hundred officials to go to Kawaradera and perfom the ceremony of lighting lanterns and giving offerings to Buddha.  Then they held a great feast and offered repentance for their transgressions.  All of this sounds like a continued attempt to make merit for the state, and thus for Ohoama. We then see the court granting the monks Hounin and Gishou 30 stipend-households to provide for them in their old age, which may be more merit-making, or possibly was related to some of the many other activities so far.  There are a few issues with this entry, and Aston and Bentley don't seem to agree on the actual date.  Bentley has it on the 28th, but that seems odd as it comes before the entry for the 22nd of the same month.  Aston has it as the 20th, but then claimes that there is something odd about the date of the 22nd. On the 22nd, we are simply told that the district kitchen of Nabari caught fire.  Aston notes that this would have been the official government arm in the district gathering food to supply the royal household—rather than being a kitchen in terms of a place to prepare food. Merit-making continued into the 7th month.  We see the Soujou and Soudzu, the primary and secondary prelates of the Asukadera, performing ritual repentance.  The following day there is another general amnesty, and Aston specifically mentions performing a Oho-harai, or cleansing. The day after taxes were halved from the provinces and corvee labor with local conscripted labor was exempted for the year.  Then we see the court presenting paper offerings to the Kunikasu Kami in Ki provinces, as well as the four shrines in Asuka and the Great Suminoe—aka Sumiyoshi—shrine. On the 8th day of the 7th month, 100 monks were invited to the court to read the Golden Light Sutra—Konkoymyou kyou.  And on the 15th there was another court issued amnesty. Despite all of these attempts to make merit and intercede with the Buddha or with various kami, Ohoama's illness continued.  We see that the court issued a decree that all things that should occur, great or small, should be reported to the queen and the crown prince—presumably because Ohoama was no longer in a state to be able to do so. Continuing with their efforts, the court declared that destitute commoners who had been forced to borrow rice seed or money before the 12th month of the previous year would be exempted from repayment.  And then the court changed the name of the year to Akami-tori, or Shuuchou.  They also renamed the palace in Asuka to "Kiyomihara"—again, go check Episode 134 for more on the palace.  "Shuuchou" is the Red Bird, likely referring to Suzaku, though Aston also points out that "Asuka" here is given as "flying bird", as well, and there had been numerous bird-related omens reported throughout the reign. Although these names would not have been used prior to this point—the 7th month of the final year of the reign—the Chroniclers applied the nengo, Shuuchou, to all of the entries for this year, and the name of the palace is often given as "Kiyomihara" is given to distinguish it from the Later Okamoto Palace, even though it was simply the latter palace with the addition of the Ebinoko enclosure. The changing of the era name was likely another attempt to change the seemingly inauspicious year, along with all of the merit-making that the court had been undergoing. And yet they kept going. The court selected 70 people who were diligent in keeping Buddhist laws and had them take the tonsure, and they sponsored a feast—or festival—in the Royal Muro of the Palace. At the same time the various princes had a statue of the Boddhisatva of Compassion, Kannon, made for the sovereign and had the Lotus sutra—the sutra where Kannon is first mentioned—read out at Daikandaiji. Kannon, or Avalokitesvara, was originally seen as a male Boddhisatva, but is often depicted as a woman.  They are also known as Guanyin, from which we get Kannon in Japanese.  Guanyin is also seen as Goddess of Mercy, and is one of the most popular figures across multiple sects of Buddhism and even outside of the Buddhist faith, where she is still seen as a goddess.  In this case, however, it seems clear that the princes were seeking compassion to relieve the sovereign of his affliction. And yet it persisted. They had 80 more people take the tonsure, and then 100 more men and women, placed 100 statues of the Boddhisatva, Kannon, in the palace, and then read out 200 volumes of the Lotus Sutra. And then they made prayers to the kami of Heaven and Earth.  And they dispatched Hata no Imiki no Iwakatsu to present paper offerings to the Tosa great shrine.  Nothing seemed to be working. In the 9th month, we see the royal princes and others, down to the various ministers, all gathered at Kawaradera making oaths for the health of the sovereigns.  This last ditch effort would go unrewarded.  Five days later, and Ohoama would pass away.  Of course, they couldn't just say that he died:  The Chronicles actually say that he divinely departed.  After all, didn't they call him an incarnate kami? Two days later, the court began the ritual of mourning, raising voices in lamentation, and setting up a temporary palace of interment in the courtyard, south of the palace.  Ohoama's body was placed there some thirteen days later, and people mourned his passing. For the rituals, we see monks and nuns performing ritual lamentation in the courtyard between 3 and 5 am, around the time that court officials would normally be waiting at the gates.  Over the next several days, various ceremonies were held and eulogies given.  We are told that the court presented offerings of food for the dead for the first time, and over the next several days monks and nuns would offer their laments and then various individuals would provide their eulogies.  Finally, on the last day of the ninth month, the eulogies concluded with Nyang-u, a Baekje prince, who pronounced a eulogy on behalf of his father, and then the Miyatsuko of various provinces came and did likewise.  There were also performances of all manner of singing and dancing. With that, the reign of Ohoama would come to an end.  The government would continue under his wife, the Queen, and Crown Prince.  We'll get into the succession in a later episode.  For now I'll just say that he was eventually buried in a large tomb in the modern Noguchi area of Asuka, and you can still go see it. And while that does bring us to the end of the reign, we still have a few more things that I want to discuss.   This episode just seemed a good time to talk about all of the various new years ceremonies, and that seemed to lead naturally into the very last year, but there is still more to discuss.  For one thing, we still haven't quite covered the spread of Buddhism and the changes in the structure.  There are also various laws and punishments that are worth covering.  Finally, there are the Chronicles themselves: we've talked about it all along, but the Nihon Shoki and the Kojiki are attributed to this era, as is the start of what would become the capital of Fujiwara-kyo—many works that Ohoama would not live to see to the end, but is largely held responsible for starting. But until then, if you like what we are doing, please tell your friends and feel free to rate us wherever you listen to podcasts.  If you feel the need to do more, and want to help us keep this going, we have information about how you can donate on Patreon or through our KoFi site, ko-fi.com/sengokudaimyo, or find the links over at our main website,  SengokuDaimyo.com/Podcast, where we will have some more discussion on topics from this episode. Also, feel free to reach out to our Sengoku Daimyo Facebook page.  You can also email us at the.sengoku.daimyo@gmail.com.  Thank you, also, to Ellen for their work editing the podcast. And that's all for now.  Thank you again, and I'll see you next episode on Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan.  

Will catches up with Harry Bailey and George Milner of Death Goals to chat about the duo's new EP ‘Survival Is An Act of Defiance' that will be out 29th August and hosts a number of guests/friends of the band. Harry and George discuss operating as an independent band and how this supports their mission, political stance/message and how the industry could not support in the same way given what the band stands for and their place in the queercore and wider music scene. The duo continuously challenges conventional views towards their place in music and challenge issues in wider society. Harry and George discuss the number of features on the EP and how this has pushed and expanded upon Death Goals sound from including peers from a number of genres.Harry and George reflect on their journey thus far as a bandand how it has impacted on how much time they have taken to craft this EP as well as reflecting on the queercore scene and how it is thriving right now, demonstrating diversity sonically and inclusively.Buy Early Bird tickets to Noizzefest 2026 - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/noizze..⁠⁠⁠.Tickets for Kusanagi, False Hope For The Savage & Socks and Ballerinas at Fuel Rock Club | Fuel Rock Club | Sunday 31st August - ⁠https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/noizzefest/kusanagi/e-gpmjmb⁠Tickets for Cytotoxin, Analepsy, Osiah & Cognitive | Clwb Ifor Bach | Friday 21st November - ⁠https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/noizzefest/cytotoxin/e-vxxxqm⁠Support the website and pick up some merch - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.noizze.co.uk/product-cate..⁠⁠⁠.Check out ⁠⁠⁠https://www.noizze.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠ for reviews, interviews and galleries as well as the Noizze Podcast Network for other podcasts on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Heavys are giving all Noizze listeners $40 dollars off their order (that's like £38) with the code NOIZZE at checkout. -⁠⁠https://www.heavys.com/⁠⁠ Intro/Outro - Elyrian

Will, Adam and Cece return with another monthly round-up! On today's episode the trio discuss new records from The Armed, Death Goals, Fates Messenger, Slow Crush and Hayley Williams. Adam and Cece give us the lowdown on highlights fromArcTanGent, how this years festival held up and bands seen including Eyes, Coilguns, Vower, Future Of The Left, Ithaca, The Callous Daoboys, Indifferent Engine, As Living Arrows, Frontierer, Clown Core, Burner, L.O.E, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Meryl Streek, Sugar Horse, Overhead, The Albatross and meth.Will, Adam and Cece talk dream bands they hope are bookedfor ArcTanGent 2026 and have a chat about Reading and Leeds Festival.Buy Early Bird tickets to Noizzefest 2026 - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/noizze..⁠⁠⁠⁠.Tickets for Kusanagi, False Hope For The Savage & Socks and Ballerinas at Fuel Rock Club | Fuel Rock Club | Sunday 31st August - ⁠⁠https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/noizzefest/kusanagi/e-gpmjmb⁠⁠Tickets for Cytotoxin, Analepsy, Osiah & Cognitive | Clwb Ifor Bach | Friday 21st November - ⁠⁠https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/noizzefest/cytotoxin/e-vxxxqm⁠⁠Support the website and pick up some merch - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.noizze.co.uk/product-cate..⁠⁠⁠⁠.Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.noizze.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠ for reviews, interviews and galleries as well as the Noizze Podcast Network for other podcasts on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Heavys are giving all Noizze listeners $40 dollars off their order (that's like £38) with the code NOIZZE at checkout. -⁠⁠⁠https://www.heavys.com/⁠⁠⁠ Intro/Outro - Elyrian

It's conference season, Jason Scott and Kusanagi join the panel to discuss the upcoming HOPE conference, AOL is sunsetting dial up Internet service, Illinois bans AI therapists.

It's conference season, Jason Scott and Kusanagi join the panel to discuss the upcoming HOPE conference, AOL is sunsetting dial up Internet service, Illinois bans AI therapists.

Yes that's right. The Noizze Podcast is LIVE, or at least it was... We were incredibly honoured to be invited to 2000 Trees Festival this year to host a live podcast. Will and Cece took on host duties and were joined by the wonderful Meg and Willem from Vexed to talk everything from life on the farm, touring, new music, labels, managers, figuring out who the zodiac killer is and loads more. Cece took us through Vexed or Next to see what makes people angry followed by Will and Cece reviving Adam's signature Cheese Vs Service Station. It was a packed one.Thank you to every single person who turned up and a huge thank you to Vexed, Will, Cece, Adam (we wouldn't forget you mate), Rowan, Matt and the amazing team at 2000 Trees. We appreciate you all very much.Buy Early Bird tickets to Noizzefest 2026 - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/noizze..⁠⁠⁠.Tickets for Kusanagi, False Hope For The Savage & Socks and Ballerinas at Fuel Rock Club | Fuel Rock Club | Sunday 31st August - ⁠https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/noizzefest/kusanagi/e-gpmjmb⁠Tickets for Cytotoxin, Analepsy, Osiah & Cognitive | Clwb Ifor Bach | Friday 21st November - ⁠https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/noizzefest/cytotoxin/e-vxxxqm⁠Support the website and pick up some merch - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.noizze.co.uk/product-cate..⁠⁠⁠.Check out ⁠⁠⁠https://www.noizze.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠ for reviews, interviews and galleries as well as the Noizze Podcast Network for other podcasts on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Heavys are giving all Noizze listeners $40 dollars off their order (that's like £38) with the code NOIZZE at checkout. -⁠⁠https://www.heavys.com/⁠⁠ Intro/Outro - Elyrian

Will and Adam are back with another episode of the NoizzePodcast and on today's episode they are joined by Noizze legend Cece to talk all things music, from 2000 Trees and ArcTanGent to new albums within the rock, metal and alternative music scene.Will and Cece chat about the bands they saw at Trees andAdam discusses seeing Letlive and Alexisonfire. Will and Cece even discuss the Noizze Podcast that had our very own live pod at Trees this year. A massive thank you to the team at 2000 Trees for having us and looking after us. A shout out to Vexed who joined us live too. You'll be able to listen to that episode of the podcast in the next week or so as well.The trio talk then about their favourite bands they are looking forward to at ATG this year before discussing new music that includes the new Deftones single ‘my mind is a mountain' as well as the new Margarita Witch Cult album ‘Strung Out In Hell', the new Split Chain album ‘Motionblur' and the debut album from PSYCHO-FRAME called ‘Salvation Laughs In The Face Of A Grieving Mother'. STACKED.Buy Early Bird tickets to Noizzefest 2026 - ⁠⁠https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/noizze..⁠⁠.Tickets for Kusanagi, False Hope For The Savage & Socks and Ballerinas at Fuel Rock Club | Fuel Rock Club | Sunday 31st August - https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/noizzefest/kusanagi/e-gpmjmbTickets for Cytotoxin, Analepsy, Osiah & Cognitive | Clwb Ifor Bach | Friday 21st November - https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/noizzefest/cytotoxin/e-vxxxqmSupport the website and pick up some merch - ⁠⁠https://www.noizze.co.uk/product-cate..⁠⁠.Check out ⁠⁠https://www.noizze.co.uk/⁠⁠ for reviews, interviews and galleries as well as the Noizze Podcast Network for other podcasts on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Heavys are giving all Noizze listeners $40 dollars off their order (that's like £38) with the code NOIZZE at checkout. -⁠https://www.heavys.com/⁠ Intro/Outro - Elyrian

In celebration of Pride month, we take a somewhat unusual look at Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell as an allegory of trans becoming. We look at how trans individuals have read the film against their own experiences and how this highlights a queerness in Kusanagi's character that Oshii likely never intended yet is still palpably there. Substack: https://gamedesigndiscourse.substack.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/furidashi Twitter: https://twitter.com/furidashipod Lauryn: https://bsky.app/profile/espressocat.bsky.social Nicholas: https://bsky.app/profile/academicality.bsky.social

Chapter 623 - "What Do We Do With This Thing We Just Made" ...as read by Eric Kusanagi of HiroeToday we welcome Eric Kusanagi, guitarist for Hiroe to the podcast! The new Hiroe album, Wield, is out this Friday on Pelagic Records. Eric talks about how a spots injury led him to guitar, restarting musically in a new city, the struggle to get the album artwork they wanted, the guitar tone for Wield, and more. https://hiroe.bandcamp.com/album/wieldDiscordPatreonSubstackEmail: asthestorygrows@gmail.comChapter 623 Music:Hiroe - "Tides"Hiroe - "The Approach"Hiroe - "Dancing At The End Of The World"

This episode we are covering the end of the reign of Naka no Oe, aka Tenji Tennou.  We cover the events in the Chronicles, including the death of Nakatomi no Kamatari, the creation of the Fujiwara family, the destruction of Goguryeo, and the continued development of the Baekje refugees. For more, check out the podcast blog at: https://sengokudaimyo.com/podcast/episode-128 Rough Transcript Welcome to Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan.  My name is Joshua and this is episode 128: Immigrants, Princes, and High Officials. There was a pall over the house, despite the visiting royal retinue creating something of a stir,.  While craftspeople were still hard at work repairing damage from the lightning strike only a few months earlier, that wasn't the reason for the low spirits.  Rather, the house was worried for their patriarch, the Naidaijin, Nakatomi no Kamatari.  He had fallen ill, and despite all the pleas to the kami and the Buddhas , it seemed the end might be near. And so even the sovereign himself had come.  Kamatari was not just a loyal official, but  a close friend of the sovereign, someone who had been there since the beginning.  And so we can imagine how Naka no Oe felt.  He may have been the sovereign of Yamato, but he was still a human being, visiting his friend of some 30 or so years, knowing that for all of the power that he held, there was nothing he could do against the ravages of time and disease.     The year is 668—Naka no Oe has moved the capital to Ohotsu, on the banks of Lake Biwa, and has formally assumed the throne. This episode we are going to cover the last several years of Naka no Oe's reign.  In contrast to last week's dive into Yamato science, this week is going to be a bit of a grab bag, looking at what was going on in Yamato and talking about what was recorded in the Chronicles. And for the most part, the entries for the rest of the year 668 are fairly normal, and yet there are some oddities… For instance, in the fourth month we are told that Baekje sent Mitosapu and others to offer tribute.  And any other time that would be just a normal thing.  Except that at this point in history, Baekje was about as going a concern as a parrot in a Monty Python sketch.  So if the Kingdom of Baekje was no longer a thing, who was it that was sending the tribute? Most likely it was the Baekje communities in exile living in the archipelago.  Remember how many of them had settled around Biwa and in 666, two thousand Baekje people were settled somewhere in the East.  These immigrants  were still being supported by the Yamato government, who were basically subsidizing their settlement for the first three years, during which time they would be expected to make it into a permanent settlement. Based on the way the Chronicles talk about it, these early Baekje communities sound like they were maintaining a kind of kingdom in exile.  With many immigrants from Baekje living together in proximity, they were likely keeping their own groups, with their own language and traditions, at least for now.  It would be interesting to know if there were specific Baekje settlements that have been identified through the archaeological record.   That said, we definitely see Baekje's mark on the archipelago: Physically, there are the Baekje style castles, and various temples following Baekje style layouts.  Of course there were also continental building styles, but some of that was shared across multiple cultures at this point, and one should consider how much Baekje influence might have been found in things that we later see as Japanese. Additionally, Baekje nobles were involved in the court, often given court rank based in part on their rank in Baekje, though it wasn't quite equivalent.  Still,  in time, some of the nobles would trace their lineages back to Baekje nobles and princes. Speaking of princes and Baekje, on the fifth day of the fifth month of 668 —a day that would come to be known as Ayame no hi, or Tango no Sekku, one of the major days of court ceremony—Naka no Oe went out hunting on the moor of Kamafu, known today as Gamou district, near Kanzaki, where 400 Baekje people had been settled.  He was out there with the Crown Prince, his younger brother, aka Prince Ohoama, and all the other princes and ministers.  A grand outing. A month later, however, tragedy struck.  One “Prince Ise” and his younger brother died on consecutive days.  While this was undoubtedly a blow to the court, the interesting thing for our purposes – which also highlights the challenge of interpreting the Chronicles is that we aren't exactly sure who this is referring to.  It's not the first time we've seen this title: we first see a “Prince Ise” show up around 650, during the presentation of the white pheasant that ushered in the Hakuho era, but we later see that that individual had passed away in 661.  We also see the name show up less than 20 years later in the Chronicles for another prince, so this can't be the same.  So this is clearly a position or title for a prince, but it isn't clear if it was passed down or inherited.   One possibility is that “Prince Ise” or “Prince of Ise” was a title for one of the royal sons. IAt this point in the narrative, Naka no Oe had three sons.  Prince Takeru had passed away at the age of 8, but he also had Prince Kawajima, Prince Shiki, and Prince Iga, aka Prince Ohotomo, all sons of “palace women”.  We know, though, that these princes show up later, so I don't think the so-called Prince Ise was one of them.  Perhaps another line?   The term “Prince” might also refer to something other than a royal son.  You see, English translators have often been somewhat cavalier with the way we tend to render titles.  The English term “Prince” has  been used for “Hiko”, “Miko”, or “Ou” (which was probably pronounced “Miko” in many of these cases).  And in English, we often think of “Prince” as the son of a king, but “Prince” can also be an independent ruler of a principality, or may just refer to a person with power in a monarchic state.  Even the term “king” is not unambiguous—early European accounts of Japan during the Warring States period often refer to the various daimyou as “kings”, given the often absolute dominion with which they apparently ruled their particular domains. At this time, the term “Miko”  (also pronounced “ouji”, or “koushi”, or even “sume-miko”) seems rather unambiguously to refer to a “royal prince”, from the lineage of the sovereign.  The term “Ou”, which also seems to be read as “Miko” in some cases, is also the term for “King” and probably more broadly fits the concept of a “prince” as a ruler.  However, in this case, it seems to be equal to the term “Miko”, and may have been used almost interchangeably for a time, though later it would be used to refer to members of princely rank who were not directly related to a reigning sovereign—the grandchildren and so forth of royal princes who did not go on to inherit. In this case, I think the best we can say for certain is that Prince Ise—or the Prince of Ise—was someone important enough to be included in the chronicles – but who he was, exactly, will remain a mystery for now. The following month, the 7th month, was chock full of activities.  First of all, Goguryeo sent envoys by way of Koshi—meaning they landed on the Japan Sea side, probably around Tsuruga.  While this may just have been closer, I suspect it meant they avoided any Tang entanglements traveling through the Bohai sea.  They did run into a spot of trouble, however, as the winds and waves prevented their return. Koshi also shows up as presenting some strange gifts to the court:  burning earth and burning water.  There is some thought that maybe this is something like coal or natural oil deposits. We are also told that in this month, Prince Kurikuma was appointed the governor of Tsukushi.  Kurikuma no Ou appears to have been the grandson—or possibly great-grandson—of the sovereign, Nunakura, aka Bidatsu Tennou.  The position Kurikuma was given was important, of course, overseeing the Dazai, which meant overseeing anyone traveling to the archipelago from the continent. This would be a relatively short-lived appointment—this time.  He would be re-appointed about three years later, which would prove important, as he would be governor there during some particularly momentous events.    Stories appear to have continued about him in the Nagasaki region, and various families traced their lineage back to him. Also in that month, we are told that Afumi, home of the new capital, practiced military exercises—likely in preparation in case of a future Tang or Silla invasion.  Recall we discussed in Episode 126 how the choice of Afumi as a capital site might have been related to its defensibility in the event of such an invasion. At the same time, the court entertained Emishi envoys, and the toneri, by royal command, held banquets in various places. There is also mention of a shore-pavillion, presumably at Lake Biwa, where fish of various kinds came, covering the water.  Interestingly enough, there is another story of a “shore pavilion”, likely the same one, in the Fujiwara Family Record, the Toushi Kaden.  We are told that Prince Ohoama – Naka no Oe's younger brother spiked a large spear through a plank of wood in some kind of feat of strength.  This apparently shocked Naka no Oe, who saw it aa  kind of threat—perhaps seeing that his five-years younger brother was still hale and healthy.  Granted, Naka no Oe was only in his 40s, but his brother Ohoama was in his later 30s.  We are also told that at this time, in 668, Naka no Oe was apparently not doing so well, with people wondering if he would be with them much longer. The Toshi Kaden account seems rather surprising in that it claims Naka no Oe was so shocked by this proof of his brother's vitality that he wanted to have him put to death, suggesting to me that he felt that Ohoama might be a threat to him and his rule.  Ultimately, though, he was talked out of this by his old friend, Nakatomi no Kamatari – the one whom he had plotted with to overthrow the Soga, and whose relationship was initiated by an interaction on the kemari field, as we discussed in Episode 106. Speaking of whom: Nakatomi no Kamatari was still Naijin, the Inner or Interior Minister, and so  quite prominent in the administration. In the 9th month, as a Silla envoy was visiting the court, Kamatari sent Buddhist priests Hoben and Shinpitsu to present a ship to the Prime Minister of Silla, which was given to the Silla envoy and his companions, and three days later, Fuse no Omi no Mimimaro was sent with a ship meant for the King of Silla as well. This incident is also recounted in the Toshi Kaden.  In this case it says that the people, hearing about the gifts to Silla, were quite upset.  After all, it stands to reason:  Yamato was still smarting from their defeat at the hands of Tang and Silla forces, and building up defenses in case of an attack.  They'd also taken in a number of Baekje nobles and families, who may have also had some influence on the court.  We are told that Kamatari himself excused all of this by stating that “All under heaven must be the sovereign's land.  The guests within its borders must be the sovereign's servants.”  In this case, all under heaven, or “Tenka”, is a common phrase used to describe a monarch's sovereignty over everything in the land.  And so, while Silla envoys were in Yamato as guests, they also fell under similar rules, and as such were considered, at least by Yamato, as the sovereign's servants and thus worthy of gifts. The Silla envoys stayed for over a month.  They finally departed by the 11th month of 668, carrying even more gifts, including silk and leather for the King and various private gifts for the ambassadors themselves.  The court even sent Chimori no Omi no Maro and Kishi no Woshibi back with the envoy as Yamato envoys to the Silla court. This all tells us that just as the Tang were working to woo Yamato, Silla was likely doing so as well.  And while Yamato might still begrudge the destruction of Baekje, they also had to face the political reality that Baekje was probably not going to be reinstated again—especially not while the Tang government was occupying the peninsula. So making nice with both Tang and Silla was prudent. Furthermore, though they had been visited by Goguryeo envoys earlier that year, Yamato may have had some inkling that Goguryeo was not in the most powerful position.  Ever since the death of Yeon Gaesomun, the Goguryeo court had been involved in infighting—as well as fighting their external enemies.  One of Gaesomun's sons had been exiled and had gone over to the Tang, no doubt providing intelligence as well as some amount of legitimacy.  What they may not have known was that as Yamato was hosting the Silla envoys, a new assault by the Tang-Silla alliance was advancing on Pyongyang and setting siege to the city.  The Nihon Shoki records that in the 10th month of 668 Duke Ying, the Tang commander-in-chief, destroyed Goguryeo. This would dramatically change the international political landscape.  Tang and Silla had been triumphant—Yamato's allies on the peninsula had been defeated, and what we know as the “Three Kingdoms” period of the Korean peninsula was over.  However, the situation was still fluid.  The peninsula was not unified by any sense of the imagination.  The Tang empire had their strategic positions from which they controlled parts of the peninsula and from which they had been supplying the war effort against Goguryeo.  They also likely had to occupy areas to ensure that nobody rose up and tried to reconstitute the defeated kingdoms.  In fact, there would be continued attempts to revive Goguryeo, as might be indicated in the name we use: by the 5th century, the country was actually using the name “Goryeo”, a shortened form of “Goguryeo”, but we continue to refer to it as “Goguryeo” to distinguish it from the country of the same name that would be established in 918, laying claim to that ancient Goguryeo identity. A bit of spoilers, but “Goryeo” is where we would eventually get the name that we know the region by, today:  “Korea”.  In the Nihon Shoki it is referred to as “Gaori”. But none of that could have been known at the time.  Instead, there was no doubt some exuberance on the side of both Silla and Tang, but that would settle into something of unease.  With Baekje and Goguryeo destroyed, Silla may have thought that Tang would leave, allowing them to solidify their hold and manage those territories as an ally.  If this is what they thought, though, I'm not sure they had run it by the Tang empire just yet. In the Yamato court, there appear to have been separate factions: a pro-Tang faction, and also a pro-Silla faction.  We have to assume, based on the actions in the record at this time, that this was a ongoing debate. The last thing I'll note for the year 668 is attempted theft.  The Buddhist priest Dougyou stole Kusanagi, the famous sword forming part of the imperial regalia, and escaped with it.  Kusanagi, you may recall, was the royal sword.  It was named “Kusanagi” or “grass cutter” because it is said that when Prince Yamato Takeru was subduing the eastern lands, he was surrounded in a field that had been set on fire, and he used Kusanagi to create a firebreak by cutting down all of the grass around him.  The sword was given to him by Yamato Hime, the Ise Princess at the time, and it was thought to have been first found by the god Susanowo inside of the legendary Yamata no Orochi.  We talked about this in Episodes 16, 34, and 35.  Yamato Takeru left the sword in Owari, and it would eventually live there, at Atsuta Jingu, Atsuta Shrine, its traditional home. It isn't clear if Dougyou obtained the sword from Owari or if it was being kept in the capital at the time.  It would have likely been brought out for Naka no Oe's coronation, but then it would probably have been returned to the shrine that was holding it. Dougyou tried to head to Silla with his illicit goods, but wind and rain forced him to turn back around.  This is a fascinating story and there's a lot to dive into here. So first off, let's point out that this is supposed to be a Buddhist priest.  What the heck was going on that he was going to try to run a heist on what are essentially the Crown Jewels of the Yamato crown?  While the sword, mirror, and jewel were still somewhat questionable as the sole three regalia, they were clearly important.  We aren't given Dougyou's motives.  We don't know enough about him.  Was he anti-Yamato or anti-Naka no Oe?  Was he actually a Buddhist priest of his own accord, or was he a priest because he was one of those who had been essentially conscripted into religious orders on behalf of some powerful noble?  Was he a Buddhist who wanted to attack the hold of the kami? Was he pro-Silla, or perhaps even a Silla descendant, trying to help Silla? Or was he just a thief who saw the sword, Kusanagi, as a valuable artifact that could be pawned outside of Yamato? That last possibility feels off.  While we aren't exactly sure what Kusanagi looked like, based on everything we know, the sword itself wasn't necessarily blinged out in a way that would make it particularly notable on the continent.    And if Dougyou and whoever his co-conspirators were just wanted to attack the Yamato government, why didn't he just dump Kusanagi in the see somewhere?  He could have destroyed it or otherwise gotten rid of it in a way that would have embarrassed the government. It seems mostly likely that this theft had something to do with pro-Silla sentiment, as if Silla suddenly showed up with the sword, I imagine that would have been some diplomatic leverage on the Yamato court, as they could have held it hostage.  In any case, the plan ultimately failed, though the Chronicles claim it was only because the winds were against him—which was likely seen as the kami themselves defending Yamato. On to a new year.  At the start of 669, Prince Kurikuma (who we mentioned above) was recalled to the capital and Soga no Akaye was appointed governor of Tsukushi. We mentioned Akaye a couple of episodes back.  He was involved in the broken arm-rest incident, where Prince Arima was plotting against Takara Hime, aka Saimei Tennou, and Akaye's daughter Hitachi no Iratsume, was one of the formal wives of Naka no Oe, who would give birth to the princess Yamabe. Now Akaye was given the position of governor of Tsukushi. This position is an interesting one throughout Japanese history.  In many ways it is a viceroy—the governor of Tsukushi has to effectively speak with the voice of the sovereign as the person responsible for overseeing any traffic to and from the continent.  This also was likely a highly lucrative position, only handed out to trusted individuals. However, it also meant that you were outside of the politics of the court.  Early on that was probably less of a concern.  At this time, court nobles were likely still concerned with their traditional lands, which created their economic base, meaning that the court may have been the political center, but there was still plenty of ways to gain power in the archipelago and it wasn't solely through the court.  Over time, as more and more power accrued to the central court government, that would change.  Going out to manage a government outpost on the far end of the archipelago—let alone just going back to manage one's own estates—would be tantamount to exile.  But for now, without a permanent city built up around the palace, I suspect that being away from the action in the capital wasn't quite as detrimental compared to the lucrative nature of a powerful position.  Later, we will see how that flips on its head, especially with the construction of capitals on the model of those like Chang'an. For now, new governor Soga no Akaye was likely making the most of his position.  On that note, in the third month of 669, Tamna sent their prince Kumaki with envoys and tribute.  They would have come through Tsukushi, and Soga no Akaye likely enjoyed some benefits as they were entertained while waiting for permission to travel the rest of the way down to the Yamato capital.  The Tamna embassy did not exactly linger at the court.  They arrived on the 11th of the 3rd month, and left one week—seven days—later, on the 18th.  Still, they left with a gift of seed-grain made to the King of Tamna. On their way out, they likely would have again stopped in at Tsukushi for provisions and to ensure that all of their business was truly concluded before departing. A couple of months later, on the 5th day of the 5th month, we see another hunting party by Naka no Oe.  This seems to have been part of the court ritual of the time for this ceremonial day.  This time it was on the plain of Yamashina.  It was attended by his younger brother, Crown Prince Ohoama, as well as someone called “Fujiwara no Naidaijin” and all of the ministers. “Fujiwara no Naidaijin” is no doubt Nakatomi no Kamatari.  This is an interesting slip by the Chroniclers, and I wonder if it gives us some insight into the source this record came from.  Kamatari was still known as Nakatomi at the time, and was still the Naidaijin, so it is clear they were talking about him.  But historically his greatest reputation is as the father of the Fujiwara family, something we will get to in time.  That said, a lot of the records in this period refer to him as “Fujiwara”.  We've seen this previously—because the records were being written later they were often using a more common name for an individual, rather than the name—including title—that the individual actually would have borne at the time of the record.  This really isn't that different from the way we often talk about the sovereigns using their posthumous names.   Naka no Oe would not have been known as “Tenji Tennou” during his reign.  That wouldn't be used until much later.  And yet, many history books will, understandably, just use the name “Tenji” because it makes it clear who is being talked about. This hunting trip is not the only time we see the name “Fujiwara” creep into the Chronicles a little earlier than accurate: we are told that only a little later, the house of “Fujiwara” no Kamatari was struck by lightning.  But that wasn't the only tragedy waiting in the wings.  Apparently, Kamatari was not doing so well, and on the 10th day of the 10th month, his friend and sovereign, Naka no Oe, showed up to pay his respects and see how he was doing. Ever since that fateful game of kemari—Japanese kickball—the two had been fast friends.  Together they envisioned a new state.  They overthrew the Soga, and changed the way that Japan even conceived of the state, basing their new vision off continental ideas of statehood, governance, and sovereignty.  Now, Kamatari was gravely ill. What happens next is likely of questionable veracity Sinceit is unlikely that someone was there writing down the exact words that were exchanged, but the Chronicles record a conversation between the sovereign and his ill friend.  And the words that the Chroniclers put in their mouths were more about the image that they wanted to project.  According to them, Naka no Oe praised his friend, and asked if there was anything that he could do. Kamatari supposedly eschewed anything special for burial arrangements.  He supposedly said “While alive I did no service for my country at war; why, then, should I impose a heavy burden on it when I am dead?”  Hard to know if he actually felt like that or not, or if thr Chroniclers were likening him to  Feng Yi of the Han dynasty, the General of the Great Tree.  He was so-called because he would often find a tree to take time to himself.  He likewise was renowned for his dislike of ostentation, much like Kamatari foregoing a fancy burial mound. Five days later, Naka no Oe sent Crown Prince Ohoama to Kamatari's house to confer on him the cap of Dai-shiki, and the rank of Oho-omi.  They also conferred on him and his family a new surname:  Fujiwara, and so he became Fujiwara no Daijin, the Fujiwara Great Minister.  The next day he died.  One source known as the Nihon Seiki, said that he was 50 years old, but according to the Chronicles there was an inscription on his tomb that stated he died at age 55. Three days later, we are told that Naka no Oe went to the house of the now late Fujiwara no Naidaijin, and gave orders to Soga no Akaye no Omi, declaring to him his gracious will and bestowing on him a golden incense-burner.  This is somewhat odd, because as we were just talking about, Soga no Akaye had been appointed governor of Tsukushi, though the Toshi Kaden claims that it was actually Soga no Toneri who was in Tsukushi—but these could also mean the same people.  Why this happened right after Kamatari's death suggests to me that Soga no Akaye may have had something to do with the arrangements for Kamatari's funeral or something similar. Let's talk about this whole incident.  There are many that think the Nihon Shoki has things a bit out of order, and on purpose.  Specifically, it is quite likely that the name “Fujiwara” was actually granted after Kamatari's death, and not on the day of, as it has here.  He may even have been posthumously elevated.  But since the Fujiwara family would go on to be quite powerful, the order of events and how they were recorded would have been very important in the 8th century. By naming Kamatari's line the Fujiwara, the court were effectively severing it from the rest of the Nakatomi.  The Nakatomi family would continue to serve as court ritualists, but the Fujiwara family would go on to much bigger and better things.  This change also likely meant that any inheritance of Kamatari's would go to his direct descendants, and that a brother or cousin couldn't necessarily just take over as the head of the household.  So it's very possible that this “setting apart” of the Fujiwara family immediately upon Kamatari's death is a later fiction, encouraged by the rising Fujiwara themselves, in an attempt to keep others from hanging on to their coat tails, as it were. Also a quick note about the idea that there was an inscription on Kamatari's tomb.  This is remarkable because so far, we have not actually found any such markers or tombstones on burials prior to this period.  We assume that they would have been stone or wood markers that were put up by a mound to let you know something about the person who was buried there.  Over time, most of these likely wore away.  But it is interesting to think that the practice may have had older roots. The death of Kamatari wasn't the only tragedy that year.  We are also told that in the 12th month there was a fire in the Treasury, and that the temple of Ikaruga—known to us as Houryuuji, the temple built by Shotoku Taishi—also was burnt.  It isn't said how bad, but only three months later, in 670, another fire struck during a thunderstorm, and we are told that everything burned down—nothing was left. That said, it seems that they may have been able to reuse some of the materials.  I say this because an analysis of the main pillar of the pagoda in the western compound suggests that the tree it came from was felled in 594. The rest of 699 included some less dramatic events. For instance, in the 8th month, Naka no Oe climbed to the top of Takayasu, where he took advice as to how to repair the castle there.  The castle had been built only a couple of years earlier, but already needed repairs.  However, the initial repair project had been abandoned because the labor costs were too much.  The repairs were still needed, though, and they carried out the work four months later in the 12th month, and again in the 2nd month of the following year, and that stores of grain and salt were collected, presumably to stock the castle in case they had to withstand a siege. I suspect that the “cost” of repairing the castle was mostly that it was the 8th month, and the laborers for the work would have to be taken away from the fields.  By the 12th month, I can only assume that those same laborers would be free from their other duties. Speaking of costs, sometimes the Chronicles really make you wonder what was going through the mind of the writers, because they noted that the Land-tax of the Home Provinces was collected.  Maybe this was the first time it had actually been instituted?  I don't know.  It just seems an odd thing to call out. There was also 700 more men from Baekje removed and settled in Kamafu—Gamou District—in Afumi.  And then there was a Silla embassy in the 9th month, and at some point in the year Kawachi no Atahe no Kujira and others were sent to the Tang court.  In response, an embassy from the Tang to Yamato brought 2000 people with them, headed by Guo Wucong, who I really hope was getting some kind of premiere cruiser status for all of his trips. The following year, 700, started out with a great archery meeting, arranged within the palace gate.  I presume this to mean that they had a contest.  Archery at this time—and even for years to come—was prized more highly than even swordplay.  After all, archery was used both in war and on the hunt.  It is something that even the sage Confucius suggested that people should practice.  It is also helpful that they could always shoot at targets as a form of competition and entertainment. Later, on the 14th day of the 1st month, Naka no Oe promulgated new Court ceremonial regulations, and new laws about people giving way on the roads.  This rule was that those of lower status should get out of the way of those of higher status.  Funnily enough, in the description of Queen Himiko's “Yamateg”, back in the 3rd century, this was also called out as a feature of the country.  It is possible that he was codifying a local tradition, or that the tradition actually goes back to the continent, and that the Wei Chroniclers were projecting such a rule onto the archipelago.  I'm honestly not sure which is which.  Or perhaps they expanded the rules and traditions already in place.  There were also new laws about prohibiting “heedless slanders and foul falsehoods”, which sounds great, but doesn't give you a lot to go on. The law and order theme continues in the following month.  A census was taken and robbers and vagabonds were suppressed.  Naka no Oe also visited Kamafu, where he had settled a large number of the Baekje people, and inspected a site for a possible future palace.  He also had castles built in Nagato in Tsukushi, along the route of any possible invasion from the Korean peninsula. In the third month, we have evidence of the continued importance of kami worship, when they laid out places of worship close to Miwi mountain and distributed offerings of cloth.  Nakatomi no Kane no Muraji pronounced the litany.  Note that it is Nakatomi no Muraji—as we mentioned, the Nakatomi would continue to be responsible for ceremonial litany while the Imibe, or Imbe, family would be responsible for laying out the various offerings. Miwi would seem to be the same location as Miidera, aka Onjou-ji, but Miidera wouldn't be founded for another couple of years. In the 9th month of 670, Adzumi no Tsuratari, an accomplished ambassador by this point, travelled to Silla. Tsuratari had been going on missions during the reign of Takara Hime, both to Baekje and to the lands across the “Western Seas”.  While we don't exactly know what transpired, details like this can help us try to piece together something of the relative importance of the mission. In the last entry for 670, we are told that water-mills were made to smelt iron.  If you are wondering how that works, it may have been that the waterwheel powered trip hammers—it would cause the hammer to raise up until it reached a point where it would fall.  Not quite the equivalent of a modern power hammer, it still meant that fewer people were needed for the process, and they didn't have to stop just because their arms got tired. The following year, 671, got off to a grand start, with a lot of momentous events mentioned in just the first month of the year. First off, on the 2nd day of the first month, Soga no Akaye – now back from his stint as governor of Tsukushi - and Kose no Hito advanced in front of the palace and offered their congratulations on the new year.  Three days later, on the 5th day, Nakatomi no Kane, who had provided the litany at Miwi, made an announcement on kami matters.    Then the court made official appointments.  Soga no Akaye was made the Sadaijin, or Prime Minister of the Left, and Nakatomi no Kane was made Prime Minister of the Right.  Soga no Hatayasu, Kose no Hito, and Ki no Ushi were all made daibu, or high ministers.  On top of this, Naka no Ohoe's son, Prince Ohotomo, was appointed as Dajodaijin. “Dajodaijin” is a new position that we haven't seen yet, and it is one of those positions that would only show up on occasion.  It is effectively a *Prime* Prime Minister.  They were considered superior to both the ministers of the left and the right, but didn't exactly have a particular portfolio.  The Ministers of the Left and the Right each had ministries under them that they were responsible for managing.  Those ministries made up the Daijo-kan, or the Council of State.  The Dajodaijin, or Daijodaijin, was basically the pre-eminent position overseeing the Council of State.  I suspect that the Dajodaijin seems to have been the evolution of the Naidaijin, but on steroids.  Nakatomi no Kamatari had administered things as Naidaijin from within the royal household, but the Dajodaijin was explicitly at the head of the State.  Of course, Prince Ohotomo was the son of Naka no Oe himself, and the fact that he was only 23 years old and now put in a place of prominence over other ministers who were quite likely his senior, is remarkable.  I wonder how much he actually was expected to do, and how much it was largely a ceremonial position, but it nonetheless placed Ohotomo just below his uncle, Crown Prince Ohoama, in the overall power structure of the court. Speaking of which, following the new appointments, on the 6th day of the year, Crown Prince Ohoama promulgated regulations on the behalf of his brother, Naka no Oe.  There was also a general amnesty declared, and the ceremonial and names of the cap-ranks were described in what the Chronicles calls the Shin-ritsu-ryo, the New Laws. Towards the end of the first month, there were two embassies, both from now-defunct kingdoms.  The first was from Goguryeo, who reportedly sent someone named Karu and others with Tribute on the 9th day, and 4 days later, Liu Jenyuan, the Tang general for Baekje sent Li Shouchen and others to present a memorial.  I'm not sure if the Goguryeo envoys were from a government in exile or from a subjugated kingdom under Tang and Silla domination.  The Tang general in Baekje was a little more transparent.  That said, that same month we are told that more than 50 Baekje nobles were given Yamato court rank, perhaps indicating that they were being incorporated more into the Yamato court and, eventually, society as a whole.  That said, the remains of the Baekje court sent Degu Yongsyeon and others with tribute the following month. This is also the year that Naka no Oe is said to have placed the clepsydra or water clock in a new pavilion.  We talked about this significance of this last episode.  We are also told that on the third day of the third month, Kibumi no Honjitsu presented a “water level”, a Mizu-hakari.  This would seem to be what it sounds like:  A way of making sure that a surface is level using water.  There is also mention of the province of Hitachi presenting as “tribute” Nakatomibe no Wakako.  He was only 16 years old, and yet we are told he was only one and a half feet in height—one shaku six sun, more appropriately.  Assuming modern conversions, that would have put him approximately the same height as Chandra Dangi of Nepal, who passed away in 2015 but who held the Guiness World Record for the world's shortest person at 21.5”—or 54 centimeters.  So it isn't impossible. The fact that he is called “Nakatomibe” suggests that he was part of the family, or -Be group, that served the Nakatomi court ritualists.  Unfortunately, he was probably seen more as an oddity than anything else at the time.  Still, how many people from that time are not remembered at all, in any extant record?  And yet we have his name, which is more than most. In the following month, we are also told that Tsukushi reported a deer that had been born with eight legs.  Unfortunately, the poor thing died immediately, which is unfortunately too often the case. And then the fifth day of the fifth month rolled around again. This year there was no hunting, but instead Naka no Oe occupied the “Little Western Palace” and the Crown Prince and all of the ministers attended him.  We are told that two “rustic” dances were performed—presumably meaning dances of some local culture, rather than those conforming to the art standards passed down from the continent.  As noted earlier, this day would be one of the primary ceremony days of the later court. The following month, we are told that there was an announcement in regards to military measures requested by the messengers from the three departments of Baekje, and later the Baekje nobles sent Ye Chincha and others to bring tribute.  Once again, what exactly this means isn't clear, but it is interesting to note that there were three “departments” of Baekje.  It is unclear if this was considered part of the court, or if this was Baekje court in exile managing their own affairs as a guest in Yamato. It is also interesting that they seem to have been traveling to the Yamato court while Li Shouchen was still there, sent by the Tang general overseeing Baekje.  That must have been a bit of an awkward meeting.  We are told that they all took their departure together on the 11th day of the 7th month.  Does that mean they left with the Tang envoy?  Was the Tang inviting some of them to come back?  Or just that they all left the court at the same time. The same month, Prince Kurikuma was once more made Governor of Tsukushi—or possibly made governor the first time, depending on whether or not you think the Chronicles are accurate or that they pulled the same event twice from different sources.  We are also told that Silla sent envoys with gifts that included a water buffalo and a copper pheasant for the sovereign. The 8th month of the year, we hear that Karu of Goguryeo and his people took their leave after a seven month long visit.  The court also entertained the Emishi.  Two months later, Silla sent Kim Manmol and others with more tribute, but this envoy likely found a different feeling at court. And that is because on the 18th day of the 8th month, the sovereign of Yamato, Naka no Oe, took to his bed, ill.  There was a ceremony to open the eyes of 100 Buddhas in the interior of the palace, and Naka no Oe sent messengers to offer to the giant Buddha of Houkouji a kesa, a golden begging-bowl, an ivory tusk, aloeswood, sandalwood, and various objects of value, but despite any spiritual merit that may have accrued, it didn't seem to work.  Naka no Oe's illness continued to grow more serious.  He would continue to struggle for another two months, until, on the 3rd day of the twelfth month, Naka no Oe, aka Tenji Tennou, sovereign of Yamato, passed away. For all that we should be careful to avoid the “Great Man” theory of history, it is nonetheless hard to deny that Naka no Oe had an incredible impact on the country in his days.  From start to finish, while one could argue that many of the reforms were simply a matter of time as the archipelago absorbed more and more ideas from across the straits, Naka no Oe found himself in the middle of those reforms.  The Yamato State would never be the same, and he oversaw the birth of the Ritsuryo state, a new state nominally based on laws and rules, rather than just tradition.  It may not be entirely clear, but he also helped inculcate a new sense of the power of the sovereign and of the state, introducing new cultural imaginaries.  Yamato's reach wasn't just vague boasting, but by instituting the bureaucratic state they were able to actually expand the reach of the court farther than any time before. And through those changes, Naka no Oe had, in one way or another, been standing at the tiller.  Now, he was gone, as were many of his co-conspirators in this national project.  Which leaves us wondering:  What comes next? Well, we'll get to that, but not right now.  For now, let us close this episode with Naka no Oe's own end.   Next episode, we can get into the power struggles that followed, culuminating in an incident known as the Jinshin no Ran:  The Jinshin war. Until then, thank you once again for listening and for all of your support. If you like what we are doing, please tell your friends and feel free to rate us wherever you listen to podcasts.  If you feel the need to do more, and want to help us keep this going, we have information about how you can donate on Patreon or through our KoFi site, ko-fi.com/sengokudaimyo, or find the links over at our main website,  SengokuDaimyo.com/Podcast, where we will have some more discussion on topics from this episode. 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In this electrifying episode of Mythlok, host Nitten Nair dives headfirst into the whirlwind legend of Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi—Japan's mythical Grass-Cutting Sword that once took on an eight-headed dragon and lived to slice again.From its jaw-dropping origin inside the belly of the monstrous Yamata no Orochi, to saving a prince from a fiery death, this is no ordinary piece of sharpened steel. We'll uncover how this wind-wielding blade became a symbol of divine authority, explore its mysterious powers, and ask the all-important question: Is it a blessing, or a beautifully crafted curse?Expect gods, monsters, windy showdowns, drunken dragons, and just enough historical conspiracy to make Indiana Jones raise an eyebrow. So unsheathe your curiosity, hit play, and let the legend slice through the fog of time!

Yoshitaka und Ayane scheinen eine Bilderbuchehe zu führen. Doch diese fußt auf einer gnadenlosen Abmachung. Sollte Ayane ihm keinen Nachwuchs schenken, wird er sich von ihr trennen. Die verzweifelte Ayane weiß, dass sie die Bedingung nicht erfüllen kann. | Von Keigo Higashino | Mit Peter Kurth, Sascha Icks, Sonja Beißwenger, Samuel Weiss u.a. | Komposition: Andreas Bick | Übersetzung: Ursula Gräfe | Bearbeitung und Regie: Janine Lüttmann | NDR 2018 | Podcast-Tipp: Babas Geister: https://1.ard.de/ babas_geister

Als ihr Ehemann vergiftet im Wohnzimmer aufgefunden wird, fällt der Verdacht sofort auf Ayane. Die war aber gar nicht in der Stadt. Wer hat den vergifteten Kaffee verabreicht - Ehefrau oder Geliebte? | Von Keigo Higashino | Mit Peter Kurth, Sascha Icks, Sonja Beißwenger, Samuel Weiss u.a. | Komposition: Andreas Bick | Übersetzung: Ursula Gräfe | Bearbeitung und Regie: Janine Lüttmann |NDR 2018 | Podcast-Tipp: Jenseits von Eden: https://1.ard.de/jenseitsvoneden

Marco und Heiko haben heute ein abwechslungsreiches Double-Feature im Gepäck und obendrein noch jede Menge Kurzempfehlungen.In "Pushover" (1954) muss Polizist Sheridan Undercover gehen, und das ausgerechnet mit der jungen Dame Lona (Kim Nowak in ihrer ersten Rolle), deren Geliebter einen Bankraub zu verantworten hat.In "Haunted Samurai" (1970) wird Auftragsskiller Kusanagi im von Gewissensbissen geplagt, nachdem einer seiner Morde seine eigene Schwester in den Selbstmord getrieben hat. Damit landet Kusanagi natürlich selbst auf der Abschussliste seines Clans - und der sendet seine seltsamsten Killer aus, um den Ausreißer zu eliminieren.Kurzempfehlungen: Marco: Columbo, Border River, Crossroads, Rio Grande, Blood Hunt, Mute Witness, Tarzan the Apeman, Risky Business Heiko: A Deadly Affair, Death in the Garden, The King of Comedy, Young Frankenstein, Avengement, New NightmareHört auch unseren Comic Podcast: Im COMIC CAMP Podcast besprechen wir alle vier Wochen die neuesten US-Serienstarts, Neuheiten aus aller Welt und Klassiker aus unserem Comicregal. Jetzt überall wo es Podcasts gibt! Unterstützt uns mit einer Spende oder werdet Mitglied in der Filmkammer des Schreckens! https://ko-fi.com/filmkammerWeitere Links zu unseren Websites und Social Mediahttps://linktr.ee/filmkammerEmails könnt ihr uns an filmkammer@buddelfisch.de sendenHört die Filmkammer überall wo es Podcasts gibt!Music: Intro: "80s Workout Montage", von CrossGateProductions, lizensiert via Envato Outro: "Filmkammer Theme Song" Mix von Sebastian Kempke

OFLP : Un live sans langue de bois tous les jeudis dès 19h15 sur http://twitch.tv/kahikusu ► Agenda FGC et réseaux sociaux : linktr.ee/kahikusu ► https://twitter.com/kahikusu --------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00 : Intro + programme 4:18 : Résultats de la semaine 7:08 : Retour des Galaxian Explosion Online & Offline 8:52 : Weekly Samurai Shodown, Theodasium & Ranking Marseille 11:32 : SVC Chaos se met à jour sur PS4 et Switch 12:57 : Ninza se met à jour 14:44 : Rivals of Aether 2 dévoile son contenu jour 1 16:35 : Premier perso payant dans Dragon Ball Sparking Zero 19:05 : Les bonus de préco de GGST sur Switch (format physique) 20:28 : La prochaine update d'UNI 2 aura quelques surprises 23:32 : Un point sur le Matchmaking de la collection Marvel vs Capcom 25:10 : Petit souci d'input lag pour la collection MvC 26:25 : TEKKEN s'est vu refuser un crossover très étrange 29:19 : L'itw de Kusanagi par Scel 32:43 : SF6 pose problème sur certaines consoles 40:06 : Fin de l'émission et programme de jeudi en live

OFLP : Un live sans langue de bois tous les jeudis dès 19h15 sur http://twitch.tv/kahikusu ► Agenda FGC et réseaux sociaux : linktr.ee/kahikusu ► https://twitter.com/kahikusu ► https://twitter.com/Linkexelo ► https://twitter.com/M4rtelus ► https://twitter.com/Pap_fgc ► https://twitter.com/Naudno77 ► https://twitter.com/NTSC_Elias --------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00 : Intro 8:35 : Résultats de la semaine 15:03 : L'agenda FGC 23:10 : La rentrée de l'équipe 29:16 : Le point Matos 37:55 : Débrief de l'UFA 39:39 : Débrief TEKKEN 8 à l'UFA 47:06 : Débrief GBVSR à l'UFA 54:37 : Débrief GGST à l'UFA 59:46 : Les autres résultats de l'UFA 1:04:18 : Les perfs françaises SF6 à l'UFA 1:12:08 : Pourquoi autant d'étrangers à l'UFA ? 1:25:31 : Les français de nouveau au top sur SF6 ? 1:30:44 : L'impressionnant Xiaohai sur SF6 1:37:54 : Ryu est-il toujours aussi faible sans SF6 ? 1:43:15 : On revient sur le throw loop 1:50:17 : Kusanagi dans le Capcom Pro Tour 1:56:46 : Un Plateform Fighter à 40 joueurs 1:58:31 : Une date et une bêta pour Rival of Aether 2 1:59:29 : Les conférences du TGS 2024 (SNK et Capcom) 2:03:09 : Une mise à jour pour SVC Chaos 2:03:53 : Trailer de lancement pour MK1 Khaos Reign 2:04:36 : Toushiro Hitsugaya dans Bleach 2:06:16 : Casting complet pour Dragon Ball Sparking Zero 2:09:37 : Un mod PS1 pour Dragon Ball FighterZ 2:11:56 : Hotfix pour Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising 2:13:09 : Les shaders comics pour GGST sont dispo 2:13:47 : GGST tâtonne le terrain pour sa prochaine update 2:14:30 : Tempest banni de l'Arc World Tour 2:16:00 : Justin Wong terrorise les internets sur MVC2 2:17:40 : L'input lag de la collection Marvel 2:19:28 : Premiers retours de la collection Marvel vs Capcom 2:25:35 : Le retour de la SFL Europe annoncé 2:35:45 : Nouveau gameplay de Terry dans SF6 2:44:59 : Les rendez-vous du week-end 2:48:38 : Fin de l'émission

Nghe trọn nội dung sách nói Sự Cứu Rỗi Của Thánh Nữ trên ứng dụng Voiz FM: https://voiz.vn/play/2661 Chuyện xảy ra trong bối cảnh xã hội Nhật Bản, lấy chủ điểm hôn nhân gia đình. Nó xoay quanh hai vợ chồng và những người thân quen. Cái chết bí ẩn của người chồng chính là bài toán khó mà hội thanh tra và những người thân của anh luôn canh cánh trong lòng, mong tìm ra đáp án. Một vụ án mạng mà ngay từ đầu tác giả đã ngầm gợi ý cho độc giả biết ai là hung thủ. Tuy nhiên, cả hai nghi phạm trong vụ án này - người vợ Ayane vốn là nghệ nhân nổi tiếng với các tác phẩm thảm ghép vải và cô nhân tình Hiromi đồng thời cũng là học trò của người vợ - đều có chứng cứ ngoại phạm vô cùng vững chắc, khiến cảnh sát không sao tìm ra được bằng chứng buộc tội. Trong khi nam cảnh sát Kusanagi vì cảm tình đặc biệt với người vợ nạn nhân mà nghi ngờ cô nhân tình Hiromi thì nữ cảnh sát Utsumi lại theo cảm quan riêng của phụ nữ mà nghi ngờ người vợ Ayane. Cuộc điều tra kéo dài sau đó bắt đầu hé lộ ra rằng nạn nhân cũng không phải là mẫu người đàn ông lý tưởng như hình dung ban đầu, mà thực chất là một kẻ vô cùng lạnh lùng và lý trí đến đáng sợ. Cái chết mà anh ta phải đón nhận, xét theo một lẽ nào đó thì âu cũng là cái giá phải trả cho những gì mà anh ta đã làm trước đây. Chỉ đến khi giáo sư vật lý Yukawa Manabu vào cuộc thì các nghi vấn mới được sáng tỏ, và chân tướng thật cũng như động cơ của nghi phạm mới dần phơi bày. Vậy nhưng, ngay cả chính giáo sư cũng phải thừa nhận rằng thủ pháp gây án lần này quá sức phi lý đến độ có thể gọi là đáp án ảo. Thế mới thấy, tình yêu có thể khiến một người phụ nữ trở nên vị tha đến mức nào. Nhưng đồng thời, một khi cảm thấy tình yêu ban đầu không còn nữa thì lại khiến cho họ trở nên vô cùng tàn nhẫn. SEIJO NO KYUSAI by HIGASHINO Keigo Copyright © 2008 HIGASHINO Keigo All rights reserved. Original Japanese edition published by Bungeishunju Ltd., Japan in 2008. Vietnamese Audiobook rights reserved by WeWe under the license granted by HIGASHINO Keigo arranged with Bungeishunju Ltd through Japan UNI Agency, Inc. and Squirrel Communication and Culture JSC. Tại ứng dụng sách nói Voiz FM, sách nói Sự Cứu Rỗi Của Thánh Nữ được đầu tư chất lượng âm thanh và thu âm chuyên nghiệp, tốt nhất để mang lại trải nghiệm nghe tuyệt vời cho bạn. --- Về Voiz FM: Voiz FM là ứng dụng sách nói podcast ra mắt thị trường công nghệ từ năm 2019. Với gần 2000 tựa sách độc quyền, Voiz FM hiện đang là nền tảng sách nói podcast bản quyền hàng đầu Việt Nam. Bạn có thể trải nghiệm miễn phí đa dạng nội dung tại Voiz FM từ sách nói, podcast đến truyện nói, sách tóm tắt và nội dung dành cho thiếu nhi. --- Voiz FM website: https://voiz.vn/ Theo dõi Facebook Voiz FM: https://www.facebook.com/VoizFM Tham khảo thêm các bài viết review, tổng hợp, gợi ý sách để lựa chọn sách nói dễ dàng hơn tại trang Blog Voiz FM: http://blog.voiz.vn/ --- Cảm ơn bạn đã ủng hộ Voiz FM. Nếu bạn yêu thích sách nói Sự Cứu Rỗi Của Thánh Nữ và các nội dung sách nói podcast khác, hãy đăng ký kênh để nhận thông báo về những nội dung mới nhất của Voiz FM channel nhé. Ngoài ra, bạn có thể nghe BẢN FULL ĐỘC QUYỀN hàng chục ngàn nội dung Chất lượng cao khác tại ứng dụng Voiz FM. Tải ứng dụng Voiz FM: voiz.vn/download #voizfm #sáchnói #podcast #sáchnóiSựCứuRỗiCủaThánhNữ #HigashinoKeigo

On continue la Saga Boo avec toujours Kusanagi, Shonen Gohan et Goten Kun ! Suite et fin de ce fil rouge autour de cette saga incroyable.

Un an après la partie 1, il était temps de faire la suite ! Cette fois-ci, c'est Kusanagi, Goten-kun et Shonen Gohan qui discute de cette saga !

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Interview recorded - 08/01/2022On todays episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of speaking with Clem Chambers, CEO of Online Blockchain plc and founder and former CEO of ADVFN.During our conversation we spoke about Clem's thoughts on the markets, how hedge funds are propping up the markets, when we will see the market crash and how to identify the bottom. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:15 - Clem's thoughts on the current markets?8:40 - We are in a bear market13:00 - Reverse Repo19:40 - Are hedge funds propping up the markets?25:20 - Is Apple really worth $3 trillion?31:00 - Inflation32:00 - When will we see the crash?38:15 - Counterparty risk from Banks to Crypto Exchanges44:00 - Wash trading48:20 - When will we experience the bottom?50:30 - How to identify a market bottom?56:55 - What does the top of a bubble look like?1:00:50 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?Clem Chambers is an author, journalist, Current CEO of Online Blockchain plc and founder/former CEO of ADVFN, Europe's leading stocks and markets website. He is General Partner of Ylem Capital clem@ylem.capital. A sought after media commentator, Clem is a regular guest on major television networks including CNBC (US, Europe, Asia, Arabia), Al-Jazeera, BBC, BNN and Fox News.The author of non-fiction titles including ‘Letters to my Broker', ‘The Death of Wealth' and the investment guides ‘101 Ways to Pick Stock Market Winners' and ‘A Beginner's Guide to Value Investing', Clem writes for Seeking Alpha, Forbes and Engineering and Technology magazine and has written Nikkei BP, the Gulf News and The Scotsman as well as specialist trading and business publications Risk AFRICA, Traders and Your Trading Edge. He has written investment columns for Wired Magazine, which described him as a ‘Market Maven'.Clem's first thriller novel ‘The Armageddon Trade' was published in 2009, followed by ‘The Twain Maxim' in 2010, ‘Kusanagi' in 2011 and ‘The First Horseman' in 2012. The fifth instalment in the Jim Evans Saga, 'The Shrine', was published in January 2016 as an Amazon Kindle single.In November 2018, Clem won Journalist of the Year in the Business Market Commentary category in the State Street UK Institutional Press Awards. The awards recognise outstanding performance in institutional financial services reporting in the UK.He was shortlisted in 2016 and 2017 as Columnist of the Year (Business Media) in the PPA Awards for his column in E&T Magazine, The Institution Of Engineering & Technology, and in June 2017 won silver in the Tabbie Awards for his Money and Markets column in the same publication.Clem Chambers - Website - https://www.clemchambers.com/index.htmlTwitter - https://twitter.com/clemchambers?lang=enSeeking Alpha - https://seekingalpha.com/author/clem-chambersForbes - https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/?sh=cb26e1a3dde1LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clem-chambers-756145196/?originalSubdomain=ukWTFinance -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseasThumbnail image from - https://moneyandmarkets.com/next-for-tech-stocks-dot-com-crash/

Is this series a step up from the author's previous work Golem Hearts?   We and our guest Mehgan from the Volume One podcast discuss Gen Oosuka ‘s Shonen Jump manga Doron Dororon.    Show Notes: You can reach us at Twitter @shonenflopcast or email us shonenflop@gmail.com   You can find Mehgan at https://linktr.ee/Volumeonepodcast and @VolumeOnePod   Help keep the show running by joining the Shonen Flop Patreon at patreon.com/shonenflop. Get perks like early access to episodes; bonus episodes on series like PPPPPP, Akane Banashi, and Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer; and help us decide future comment   Get Shonen Flop merch, including this episode's cover art, on a shirt, mug, print, or whatever else might catch your eye https://www.teepublic.com/stores/shonen-flop?ref_id=22733   Become a member of our community by joining our Discord. You can hang out with us, submit your questions or six word summaries! Find it at https://discord.com/invite/4hC3SqRw8r   Want to be a guest? You can ask to be on a future episode at bit.ly/shonen_flop_guest   Credits: Shonen Flop is hosted by David Weinberger and Jordan Forbes   Additional editing assistance by Dylan Crider you can find his podcast, Anime Out of Context at animeoutofcontext.com   Assistance with pronunciation, translation, and other miscellaneous research done by Tucker Whatley and MaxyBee   Episode art by Merliel (IG: mer_liel)   Cover art funded by our generous art benefactor Nigel Francis   Episode transcriptions by The Ghostwriters: Travis “T” Root, OzyRat, and TrafalagarWolfwood. You can find them on our website shonenflop.com   MAL Description:  Humans are under threat from mysterious monsters called mononoke. Dora Sasaki is unbeatable in a fight, and in order to keep a promise to his deceased mother, he aspires to be an anti-mononoke samurai. However, everything changes when he meets a kind-hearted mononoke named Kusanagi. Welcome to this dark fantasy story of humans and monsters!

Even if you've listened to this on Patreon stay tuned for a bonus Q&A!   David and Jordan give their first thoughts on the Shonen Jump manga Doron Dororon. Listen in as they give an overview of the first chapter, where they think it will go from there, and ultimately their “power word” to describe the series so far. They also dive into some listener questions.    Show Notes:   You can reach us at Twitter @shonenflopcast or email us shonenflop@gmail.com   Help keep the show running by joining the Shonen Flop Patreon at patreon.com/shonenflop. Get perks like early access to episodes; bonus episodes on series like PPPPPP, Akane Banashi, and Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer; and help us decide future comment   Get Shonen Flop merch, including this episode's cover art, on a shirt, mug, print, or whatever else might catch your eye https://www.teepublic.com/stores/shonen-flop?ref_id=22733   Become a member of our community by joining our Discord. You can hang out with us, submit your questions or six word summaries! Find it at https://discord.com/invite/4hC3SqRw8r   Want to be a guest? You can ask to be on a future episode at bit.ly/shonen_flop_guest Credits:   Shonen Flop is hosted by David Weinberger and Jordan Forbes   Additional editing assistance by Dylan Crider you can find his podcast, Anime Out of Context at animeoutofcontext.com   Episode art by Shannon (IG: illuminyatea)   Episode transcriptions by The Ghostwriters: Travis “T” Root, OzyRat, and TrafalagarWolfwood   MAL Description:  Humans are under threat from mysterious monsters called mononoke. Dora Sasaki is unbeatable in a fight, and in order to keep a promise to his deceased mother, he aspires to be an anti-mononoke samurai. However, everything changes when he meets a kind-hearted mononoke named Kusanagi. Welcome to this dark fantasy story of humans and monsters!

Just as a heads up: Connor's connection was dropping out a bunch, especially at the beginning, and was a bit laggy as well. Niamh wasn't trying to just talk over him so much! We start off with a weird digression into looking into Sci-Fi Channel's Ani-Mondays block and then getting a rant from Niamh about Chrono Cross Remaster. After that we get into topics like the Japanese political dynamics in the film; whatever the fuck Togusa is doing; parallels being drawn between Kusanagi, Kuze, and the Puppet Master with the final reveal of the Puppeteer; the failure of the neo-liberal imagination and the Major's eternal cop brain; the failure of imagination in the breaking down of family structures in order to simply rebuild them as a reambulated corpse; reproductions of the state; the surveillance state; placing the movies and show in a chronology simply as a thought experiment. Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is June 4, 2022. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Brain hacking / possession Suicide / forced suicide Child abuse / forced child surgery Manipulation of parental feelings Elder abuse / poor quality elder care Brainwashing / indoctrination Racism, including ideas of a nationalist “pureblooded” race Alcohol talk in the post-ED section Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

It's the dawn of a new podcast adventure as we're embarking on a journey into one of the most epic modern fantasy adventure manga, Mizuho Kusanagi's Yona of the Dawn. And joining us on our quest are some legendary dragons of the fandom, Marion, host of the Good Friends Anime Club, Saturday Night Shoggy, MHA Podcast, Shaman King Podcast, & The View From the Top!, Caitlin Moore, editor for Anime Feminist and writer for Anime News Network and her own blog I Have a Heroine Problem, and Olive St. Sauver, writer for ButWhyTho?! Yona of the Dawn follows the journey of the eponymous Yona, the crimson-haired teenage princess of a pan-Asian amalgam of Korea, Japan, & China called Kohka. Yona is in love with her first cousin Su-won and has a love-hate relationship with her bodyguard Hak, both of whom have been her longtime childhood friends. She confesses her love for Su-won on her 16th birthday, but when she goes to tell her father about her feelings, she finds him being murdered by Su-won himself. Su-won has staged a coup against King Il because the latter's pacifistic and non-interventionist policies have put the country in dire straits and as revenge for murdering his father, Yu-hon. At the urging of his advisor, Kei-shuk, Su-won also nearly executes Yona, but she is rescued by Hak and they go on the run. Over the course of her journey and after meeting and befriending the legendary Dragon Warriors, Yona gets stronger and more confident in her battle skills. She realizes that the people of Kohka are suffering from a ton of problems due to her father's mismanagement, so rather than reclaim the throne, she resolves to do what she can as a wandering nomad going around the kingdom to help improve the living conditions of the people and stamp out criminals and corrupt government officials exploiting them. But as Yona and her companions achieve results in helping improve things in the Kohka kingdom and neutralizing foreign threats, their reputation grows amongst the people who believe in the legend of the dragon warriors and start worshipping her and them as godly beings, dividing the loyalties of the people between Yona and Su-won and threatening to factionalize the unified kingdom that the latter so desired to create... We discuss our thoughts on Yona's growth as a heroine, the complicated relationship between her, Hak, and Su-won, and how the series challenges the concepts of prophecy and the divine authority, exploring what it means to be a leader and what it takes to lead. We also gush and argue about our favorite Dragon Warriors, and champion our favorite supporting characters like Yun, Riri, and (perhaps surprisingly?) Tae-jun! We also speculate about the direction of the story, debate the merits of the Xing arc, explore Yona's obliviousness and Hak's brazenness in their slow-burn romance, and explain just why Yona is both a throwback to the 90s shojo fantasies of yore while also being the best possible version of them, and why it satisfies a craving for more action-focused shojo fantasy works that're so few and far between these days. Yona's story and world are so rich with detail that we couldn't contain our discussion to just one podcast, so look forward to another equally meaty Q&A podcast next week to go over even more of our thoughts and theories on the series! For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, please visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-198-yona-of-the-dawn/ With the recent news of the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court and thereby nationwide abortion rights protections, we're also providing a list of links to abortion funds and organizations to help spread awareness of ways pregnant people can find safe access and financial aid for abortion services. We will keep our eye open for other Abortion access funds and organizations to shout out and promote in the future as this situation develops. We'll do our best to get involved in other community efforts to support the fight for abortion rights and stay informed and educated on what's going on and how to best use our platform to help spread awareness as best we can. Even if there's a limit on how much one of us alone can do to challenge the Court's decision, donating to these Funds and Organizations fighting the good fight and helping people in your own community who needs access to clinics and resources can make a difference, and even if that's all you can do right now sometimes that's more than enough to matter. PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Abortion Access Resources 05:35 - In Memoriam 11:22 - Intro & Podcast Overview 14:10 - Yona of the Dawn Discussion 14:47 - Guest Introductions & Our Dragon Powers 19:58 - The Appeal of Yona of the Dawn and Bucking Stereotypes About Shojo Manga 22:25 - The Plot of Yona of the Dawn 26:22 - How We Got Into Yona 26:36 - LumRanmaYasha 27:23 - Caitlin 28:45 - Olive 30:39 - Marion 33:06 - Colton 34:50 - Thoughts on the Yona Anime 36:00 - Yona's Character Growth 40:00 - Su-won as an Antagonist and Contrast to Yona and Hak 49:07 - The Complexity of Yona's Politics and Characters in Contrast to Rei Toma's Works 50:36 - Su-won vs. The Crimson Dragon King Legend, Rejecting Divine Intervention and Divine Authority 57:20 - The Sword and the Shield 1:00:15 - Yun, the Team Mom 1:01:45 - The Xing Arc 1:12:16 - Su-Won's Imperialist Ambitions 1:16:35 - Yona and Hak's Relationship 1:20:20 - Thoughts on Other Ships 1:22:44 - Thoughts on the Dragon Warriors 1:23:22 - Hak, the “Dark Dragon” 1:27:52 - Sinha, the Blue Dragon 1:28:15 - Jae-ha, the Green Dragon 1:31:12 - Tae-Jun's Redemption arc 1:36:03 - Jae-ha's Relationship with the Other Dragon Warriors 1:38:45 - The Bonus Chapters 1:39:55 - Zeno, the Yellow Dragon (MAJOR SPOILERS HENCEFORTH!!) 1:46:10 - Kusanagi's Artwork & Depiction of Violence 1:47:40 - Thematic Connections Between NG Life and Yona 1:48:47 - Zeno as the Watchful Eye of the Group 1:52:36 - The Dehumanization of the Dragon Warriors 1:54:17 - Riri and Yona as Contrasting and Complementing Leaders 2:00:07 - Relationships Between Women in Yona 2:02:33 - Friendships Between Men and Women in Yona 2:09:47 - The Relationships Between the Dragon Warriors and Yona 2:14:54 - Final Thoughts on Yona (AKA, Have You Heard the Good Word?) 2:23:40 - Q&A: “Do We Think Yona Would Be a Good Choice For a Stage Production?” 2:27:04 - Guest Plugs 2:34:31 - Community Shout-Outs: 2:41:16 - Wrap-Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you'd like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to Colton's Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha's Ko-fi here, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha's art and other projects you can follow them @siddartworks on Instagram and Twitter and donate to their personal Patreon. Don't forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! Music Featured: “Yona of the Dawn” by Kunihiko Ryo “Night” by Vistlip

Yona kicked a guy in the face! Lili maybe (probably) fell in love! Zeno...did things! These were some great chapters. Also discussed: Kusanagi's backlog and fashion in Yona. You can find us on twitter, tumblr, or gmail, or simply come back next week for the next two chapters!

Sailor Noob is the podcast where a Sailor Moon superfan and a total noob go episode by episode through the original Sailor Moon series!The danger grows ever greater this week as Esmeraude goes in for the kill! The Sailor Soldiers are still reeling from their trip to the future of Crystal Tokyo. Will they be able to fight against an overwhelming for or will they lose Chibi-Usa forever?In this episode, we discuss Japanese dragon myths, Yamato-no-Orochi, Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, Nihon Shoki, Ryujin, Toyotama-hime, Wani, and Kiyohime. We also talk asserting your innocence by force, long division by yourself, "Dragon Ball rules", laser monkey bars, put a dragon on it, double bad dadding, my comb wife, "Yep, it's a Tide jewel," jellyfish bones, Force violence, bottom-heavy dragons, doing a Skynet, and dragon toes!Not great, not terrible.We're on iTunes and your listening platform of choice! Please subscribe and give us a rating and a review! Arigato gozaimasu!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sailor-noob/id1486204787Become a patron of the show and get access to our Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon live-action show!http://www.patreon.com/sailornoobSailor Noob is a part of the Just Enough Trope podcast network. Check out our other shows about your favorite pop culture topics and join our Discord!http://www.twitter.com/noob_sailorhttp://www.justenoughtrope.comhttp://www.instagram.com/noob_sailorhttps://discord.gg/fjPAtMgABuy us a Kōhī on Ko-Fi!https://ko-fi.com/E1E01M2UA

Opening [Mortal Kombat Trailer]: 0:00Round 1  [Guilty Gear Strive Beta]: 12:01Round 2  [Kyo Kusanagi]: 27:30Round 3  [Listener Mail]: 33:33Come hang out in our Discord! We host tournaments, run sets and talk about just about anything related to fighting games and some things that aren't!iTunesSpotifyTwitch

Episode 178 blerds r us episode notes What we've been up to: Ace Mando finale X Men animated Tomas on your left meme Fb listening to convos again Martin (anime & Manga) Mando S2 finale Sport Climbing Girls Santa Clause 3 Rome 2 Star Trek Discovery S3 E10 Mulan Alice in Borderland Big T (Comic Book Expert) Ice (Gaming Expert) Micah (Sports & Social media & TV Sosderies) Wwe pull snoop dogs merchandise Blerdsrus twitch Stevie Last hope Question of the day? Nick mv cn (what is this question???) Disney slate General News Matt smith to play mad targaryen Mando gallery s2 drops xmas day Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett SW original trilogy) dies age 75. Health complications due to Parkinsons Witcher production continues after henry cavill injured convenient timing Netflix developing live action yu yu Book of fet dec 2021 Wtf news Real life john wick comic book news Jamie alexander returning as lady sif Marvel and sony extend deal Marvel bringing back jon bernthal as punisher and krysten ritter as jessica jones Martin (Anime & Manga) Anime News Ex arm crunchyroll trailer 23k dislikes on youtube (I can see why, the animation SUCKS) lolthats exactly what i said Netflix now has X-Men and Wolverine anime series. They originally aired in English in 2012 and 2011 respectively New Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya film revealed to open in 2021 Sk8 the Infinity anime will premiere 9th January 2021 Burning Kabbadi series will air in April 2021, based on the manga of the same name. Kabbadi is a sport originating from ancient India. Manga News Platinum End (creators of Death Note and Bakuman) to get an anime. Hideya Takahashi (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: GOlden Wind) is director at the Signla.MD. Koji Odate (No Game No Life) is designing the characters. KUSANAGI is heading the art, with CGI director Masanori Ikeda Record of Ragnarok is getting a manga that will be launched in 2021 by Warner Bros Japan. Kingdom's manga has its first run of 1 million copies sold, a first for it, in its 60th volume. DC Comics is working in partnership with Kodansha's Morning magazine. The first manga will be Batman Justice Buster, to be released on 24th Dec. Manga creators Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi (Ultraman, Linebarrels of Iron) are heading the manga. The second will be released 7th Jan 2021 called Wanope Joker (Joker: One Man Operation) Jujutsu Kaisen manga now has 15million copies in circulation. The manga began in 2018 Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Anime's 3rd season is getting an OVA 28th April 2021 Gaming News New perfect dark being made by microsoft People already playing as sephiroth The last of us 2 wins game of the year Ark 2 with vin diesel Ea is buying codemasters for 1.2 bllion to take lead in racing games Bioware launched a teaser trailer for a new Mass Effect game Trailers Nobody Lupin Cobra Kai season 3 Trailer Outside the wire Main movies mulan Alice in boderland Canvas

We discuss chapters 15 to 19 of The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino. After confronting Ishigami with information that has suddenly changed his course of action, Detective Galileo and Kusanagi confront their other suspect, before the entire crime starts unraveling. Did Ishigami really pull off the perfect crime, or is Yasuko's fate sealed? We also discuss the controversy that this novel caused in the Japanese mystery writing scene, and the true nature of the fair play of a novel with this level of expertise in construction.

We discuss chapters 8-14 of The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino. Detective Galileo's hunt is concluded but he won't let Kusanagi in on the final conclusion, and the tension continues to build even while the events of the novel themselves have been fairly understated. Yasuko's new partner Kudo has also entered the scene, building towards what promises to be an emotionally charged climax to a novel that continues to push the boundaries of what seems possible for a showdown between to mathematics nerds.

Episode 105 is a soundscape journey of layered audio and songs to give you space to relax and reflect. Mixed in with the music you'll hear ocean waves, rain, birds, jungle sounds, fire crackling, winds blowing, and more. Artists include Porangui, Desert Dwellers, Miguel Campbell, Pink Floyd, Thievery Corporation, Alice Coltrane, Monster Rally, Odesza, and other favorites. This experimental theme for Night Light Radio is a new adventure, enjoy! (Spotify playlist)

Amici Miei,Dal manga che ha dato una nuova spinta al genere cyberpunk all'anime che ha rivoluzionato il mondo dell'animazione, ispirando nuovi fans in tutto il mondo e contribuendo alla visione della sorelle Wachowsky per la creazione del loro "Matrix". Ghost in the Shell è grazia, bellezza, sensualità, violenza, filosofia, politica... e anche di più!Ascolta, lascia un Like, Commenta, Condividi con gli amici!TRACK LIST01. SPIRITS IN A MATERIAL WORLD - The Police02. MAKING OF CYBORG (Ghost in the Shell OST) - Kenji Kawai03. NIGHTSTALKER (Ghost in the Shell OST) - Kenji Kawai04. RISE (Ghost in the Shell - StandAloneComplex OST) - Yoko Kanno05. INNER UNIVERSE (Ghost in the Shell - StandAloneComplex OST) - Yoko Kanno

Ghost in the Shell 8.6✮ D95 B90 J75Ghost in the Shell SAC 2045 4.0✮ D50 B40 J30Juandapo, Diego y Boris hablan de la película de 1995 y de la serie de Netflix, hablan de acción, disparos, bam bam, piu piu, también de lo que significa estar vivo y ser. Hablan del machismo de ambas obras y de lo superior que es la película. Apóyanos en Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/estupidonerd Twitter: @Estupido_nerd@Juandapo, @Alefrito y @CforerooFacebook: www.facebook.com/EstupidoNerd/Instagram: www.instagram.com/estupidonerd/iTunes Podcast: http://bit.ly/EstupidoNerdGoogle Podcast: http://bit.ly/GooglepodcastSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2LC8XeIYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/c/estupidonerdwww.estupidonerd.com/Editado por: Juandapo.

Ghost in the Shell 8.6✮ D95 B90 J75Ghost in the Shell SAC 2045 4.0✮ D50 B40 J30Juandapo, Diego y Boris hablan de la película de 1995 y de la serie de Netflix, hablan de acción, disparos, bam bam, piu piu, también de lo que significa estar vivo y ser. Hablan del machismo de ambas obras y de lo superior que es la película. Apóyanos en Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/estupidonerd Twitter: @Estupido_nerd@Juandapo, @Alefrito y @CforerooFacebook: www.facebook.com/EstupidoNerd/Instagram: www.instagram.com/estupidonerd/iTunes Podcast: http://bit.ly/EstupidoNerdGoogle Podcast: http://bit.ly/GooglepodcastSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2LC8XeIYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/c/estupidonerdwww.estupidonerd.com/Editado por: Juandapo.

Cast: Danny (@Negator7) and Grant (@Calamity760) Outro: The Alchemist - Airospace https://exordiummusic.bandcamp.com/album/sorry-to-bother-you Kusanagi of Planet Excalibur 00:01:30 PSP game 00:09:54 Ikumatsu's dad 00:11:22 Fashion district 00:18:09 VR Police training Momotarou 00:20:43 Kabukichou Purification Strategy 00:22:18 Genderbent cult 00:25:35 Sachi and Gintoki get serialized 00:37:49 Seita bentou problems 00:40:52 Hasegawa and the hitman Iishin 00:43:23 Kagura as an idol with Otsuu 00:45:20 Closing thoughts 00:50:00 Contact Us: unversedpodcast@gmail.com http://unversedpodcast.libsyn.com/ Follow Us: FB Tw IG: @UnversedPodcast Marvel Talk: FB Tw IG: @MarvelTalkCast marveltalkpodcast@gmail.com https://facebook.com/MarvelTalkCast BFM Podcast: IG: @BigFuckingMoodPodcast Bigfuckingmood.libsyn.com Baamadam@icloud.com

On this episode we check out the yōkai mystery of In/Spectre, surmise the Asian influences from Yona of the Dawn, and analyze a blunt genius in Hibiki: Shousetsuka ni Naru Houhou for another round of Triple Dip! Remember to send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord server and come talk to us! http://discord.me/mangamac Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “New Stranger” by sora tob sakana from Hi Score Girl, Opening, Introductions, Social Media, Upcoming retrospective Tokyo Tarareba Girls 00:02:04 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Darfox checks out the Spanish dub of A Silent Voice with his parents 00:09:10 - Darfox made a Death Stranding gameplay analysis video 00:10:42 - dakazu is enjoying the cute chibi 4-panel comics about the real life older otaku husband and his younger Chinese wife in Chuugoku Yome Nikki 00:13:05 - dakazu desperately tries to promote Natsume Ono’s not simple without giving spoilers 00:15:53 - BENJIE is a full color manga about being a zookeeper at the interactive North Safari Sapporo zoo, which actually exists in Japan 00:19:56 - News: Expiring Netflix Licensed Originals like Knights of Sidonia have problems finding new deals due to a lack of viewership statistics 00:26:30 - We discuss the possibilities behind a company putting big money up for exclusive manga publishing 00:30:32 - A stage play of Blood Blockade Battlefront is scheduled for November 2019 in Japan 00:32:35 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Darfox Dabbles, Darfox will revisit Weekly Shonen Sunday and Weekly Shonen Magazine to check out some of their newer manga 00:33:38 - Main Segment Triple Dip: In/Spectre/Yona of the Dawn/Hibiki: Shousetsuka ni Naru Houhou, Transition Song: “Catch up, latency” by Union Square Garden from Run with the Wind, we read the beginning of each manga for discussion and to see if we’d keep reading it before picking our favorite of the three 00:34:52 - In/Spectre by Kyo Shirodaira & Chashiba Katase 00:46:07 - Yona of the Dawn by Mizuho Kusanagi 00:59:41 - Hibiki: Shousetsuka ni Naru Houhou by Mitsuharu Yanamoto 01:15:59 - Next Week’s Topic: Darfox Dabbles on Weekly Shonen Sunday & Weekly Shonen Magazine, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster

This week's manga log: To Your Eternity, written and illustrated by Yoshitoki Ōima. Description (courtesy of Kodansha): A new manga from the creator of the acclaimed A Silent Voice, featuring intimate, emotional drama and an epic story spanning time and space, To Your Eternity is a totally unique and moving manga about death, life, reincarnation, and the nature of love. A lonely boy wandering the Arctic regions of North America meets a wolf, and the two become fast friends, depending on each other to survive the harsh environment. But the boy has a history, and the wolf is more than meets the eye as well … Feel free to send your thoughts and questions via the Anchor app, the podcast e-mail: mangalogpod@gmail.com, or the podcast Twitter @mangalogpod. Next series: Yona of the Dawn, written and illustrated by Kusanagi, Mizuho Music: "Eternal Youth" by RUDE. Please support him! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXHaVENo6E) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mangalog/message

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País Estados Unidos Dirección Rupert Sanders Guion William Wheeler (Manga: Masamune Shirow) Música Clint Mansell, Lorne Balfe Fotografía Jess Hall Reparto Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Pitt, Pilou Asbæk, Juliette Binoche, Peter Ferdinando, Christopher Obi, Joseph Naufahu, Chin Han, Kaori Momoi, Yutaka Izumihara, Tawanda Manyimo, Lasarus Ratuere, Danusia Samal, Rila Fukushima, Michael Wincott Sinopsis En un Japón futurista la joven Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett Johansson), también conocida como 'the Major' Mira Killian, es la líder de grupo operativo de élite, Sección 9, cuyo objetivo es luchar contra el ciberterrorismo y los crímenes tecnológicos. Al mando de esta unidad de operaciones encubiertas está Aramaki (Takeshi Kitano), y destaca Batou (Pilou Asbæk), un exmilitar considerado como uno de los agentes más salvajes del grupo. Pero, después de un peligrosa misión, el cuerpo de Kusanagi queda dañado, siendo sometida a una operación quirúrgica para trasplantar su cerebro en un cuerpo robótico. Este nuevo cuerpo artificial le permitirá ser capaz de realizar hazañas sobrehumanas especialmente requeridas para su trabajo... Basada en la aclamada saga homónima de ciencia ficción.

Myth and history intertwine in searching for the whereabouts of a sword that is 1.8 million years old. Since 660 BCE, the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi has been passed down from emperor to emperor. Nobody can identify what the sword looks like, but the Japanese government claims it resides in the Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya.  Parcast - If you enjoyed this episode, check out our new show MYTHOLOGY! Subscribe today for more tales of mythical heroes, gods, and creatures! Sponsors! Project Blue Book - ​The new drama series Project Blue Book premieres Tuesday, January 8th at 10/9c on HISTORY. 

The ancient chronicles of Japan speak of a sword called Kusanagi, an enchanted blade wielded by the gods and handed down to their descendants. Allegedly hidden in a shrine and only called upon during the Emperor’s coronation, its authenticity remains a topic of debate. Joining it in legendary status is the Honjo Masamune, often called … Continue reading Episode 19 – A Tale of Two Swords →

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In the first of many matches conceived by one of our supporters on Patreon, Smash Fiction dives into the smoke-filled, neon-lit world of cybernoir! A Cylon has crash-landed in the futuristic city of San Fransokyo, and though it looks human, it seeks only to murder, destroy, and fuck with people's heads using big, scary words. Two detectives specializing in this manner of target, retired blade runner Rick Deckard and Section 9's Major Motoko Kusanagi -- or at least her "ghost", housed in a sort of "shell" -- are called in to track the Cylon down and show it what grim dystopian justice looks like. But of course, the two can't get along and demand to work individually, making it an investigative race to both track their quarry and take it down. Will Deckard use his old-fashioned clue-seeking skills, weird eyeball tests, and questionable proficiency with steel piping to make Kusanagi want to throw herself in front of a tank? Or will the Major's computer brain, superhuman fighting skills, and deep questions about the nature of reality ensure that Deckard's chances of victory are lost like tears in rain? Also, Kit asks the tough questions, Dan drops some inhumanity bombs on his unsuspecting co-hosts, Colin pulls out a Wayne Gretsky quote, Miles apparently thinks Blade Runner and Game of Thrones exist in the same universe, and MeganBob invents a butt-related alternative to the Turing test. As for how the episode ends...well, it's left deliberately ambiguous. OR IS IT? Support Smash Fiction by becoming a Patron at www.patreon.com/smashfictionpodcast

This week it all gets a bit animated as we explore an anime staple. Now with added horses! It's Ghost in the Shell.  If you want to contact the show, or simply have a chinwag with the chaps, then please pop by our Facebook page -  https://www.facebook.com/isawthatyearsago or follow us on Twitter @istyashow You can even contact us on good old email by sending your missives to - show@isawthatyearsago.com

Saudações amigos, ouvintes, treteiros de plantão e lutadores de briga de rua nas horas vagas! Mais uma viagem da Velha Máquina realizada com sucesso, trazendo ate vocês muita informação, cultura, conhecimento, humor, zueira e a treta nossa de cada dia! Em ritmo de treinamento e muitos combates, a Velha Máquina faz uma viagem até os primórdios do torneio O Rei dos Lutadores, e se encontra com poderosos guerreiros, demônios antigos, cultos macabros, e a ressurreição de Orochi! Sim, essa viagem é toda dedicada ao primeiro arco da série de games de luta The King of Fighters. Sabe quem foi Orochi? Conhece sua ligação com os clãs Kusanagi e Yagami? E o que os Lone Wolves de Fatal Fury tem a ver com isso? E será que KoF 98 é mesmo melhor que o KoF 97? Essas e outras perguntas você encontra a resposta somente aqui, no Machinecast! Então não perca mais tempo, e junte-se ao rei das maçãs gamísitcas Omega Neilson, ao galã de novela mexicana Robert Spider, o espetado Benima-Edu e aquele que acha que é um smurf ou alien de avatar Terry Blue! Deixe aquele like maroto, compartilhe o cast, mande seu recado e email, e junte-se à treta! Kyo: Doushitemo yaru no ka? – “Tem certeza que quer fazer isto?” Iori: Imasara inochi go ika? – “Está implorando pela sua vida?” Nossos contatos E-Mail – contato@machinecast.com.br Twitter – @machine_cast Facebook – facebook.com.br/machinecast Alvanista – @machinecast Google+ – https://plus.google.com/MachinecastBrasil

In September 2014, Odesza put out their album In Return. It debuted at #1 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic charts, and spent 13 weeks in the top 10. But the song Kusanagi isn't a dance track. It slows down the pace of the album, and in this episode, Clay and Harrison of Odesza explain why. They tell the story of how they made the track, along with their friend and collaborator who they named the song after, Sean Kusanagi. This episode was recorded live at Moogfest in Durham, North Carolina.

Charles and Di, Will and Kate, Satohito and Harumi - okay, in terms of royal couples that last pair might not be so familiar. In 2003 a lavish banquet was held to celebrate the new marriage of Prince Satohito Arisugawa of Japan’s Imperial Family. As one might expect, the guestlist was a who’s who of celebrities, politicians and wealthy elites. The party might have been a major success if it weren’t for one small problem; there is no Prince Satohito Arisugawa. In this episode we dive into one of the boldest and most uniquely Japanese swindles in modern history. We’ll be posting additional content and videos on our Facebook group. It’s private, but everyone is free to join. https://www.facebook.com/groups/599855356835724/ Email us. truecrimejapan@gmail.com Sources: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/09/12/national/imperial-imposters-get-26-months/#.Vy3sB8jXfCQ http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/10/22/national/trio-held-for-fraud-over-imperial-wedding-scam/#.Vy3yMsjXfCQ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5334330.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/1477717/Guests-at-royal-Japanese-wedding-saw-bride-then-gloom.html http://articles.latimes.com/2003/oct/27/world/fg-royals27 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article2610435.ece http://www.oneindia.com/2006/09/11/japan-couple-jailed-over-royal-wedding-rip-off-1157956700.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_House_of_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusanagi

Christine Adams is a full time model and gamer. This Eurasian beauty also happens to be the original live-action Kusanagi from the privately funded PROJECT GITS2051. In light of all the controversy surrounding the recent casting of Scarlett Johansson in Paramount's big-budget Ghost in the Shell remake (and the subsequent accusations of whitewashing), Matt thought it would be a good idea to get some perspective from the first real, live girl to play the part. Matt and Christine talk about how a modeling career can launch from playing Dungeons & Dragons and the challenges for people of color in the white dominated world of American movies. Listen to it here on this amazing episode of Pod Sequentialism with Matt Kennedy presented by Meltdown Comics. Produced by Mason Booker Engineered by Mason Booker Theme music "Rumble" provided by www.Bensound.com Logo design by Joshua Geisler www.selfuno.com

Warm - Focus Broadcast live from San Francisco's BFF.fm on 2015 - 08 - 26 at Noon PST (BFF.fm/shows/warm-focus) Tracklisting timecodes are relative to broadcast time. TRACKLISTING 12:02pm Beatific by East Forest on Love Bomb (-) 12:04pm Song 2 by DJ Krush on Jaku (Mo'Wax) 12:07pm Happiness (Instrumental) by The Foreign Exchange on Connected (-) 12:11pm Umbilical Moonrise by Lotus on Germination (-) 12:16pm You by Gold Panda on Lucky Shiner (-) 12:20pm Free by The Deadbeats on Made in the Shade (-) 12:24pm Never Mess With Sunday by Yppah on Ninja Tune XX Vol. 2 (Ninja Tune) 12:27pm The Ballad of the Space Babies (scntf remix) by Jim Guthrie on Sword & Sworcery: Moon Grotto 7" (-) 12:30pm Kusanagi by ODESZA on In Return (Foreign Family Collective) 12:33pm Airplaneshadows by Kiln on Dusker (Ghostly International) 12:37pm Altibzz by Autechre on Quaristice (-) 12:40pm Spoken by Hidden Orchestra on Archipelago (-) 12:44pm French Letter by J-Walk on A Night on the Rocks (-) 12:49pm Aquarium by Casino vs. Japan on Whole Numbers Play the Basics (-) 12:53pm Half Life (Instrumental) by Imogen Heap on Ellipse (-) 12:56pm Elitsa by Tosca on No Hassle (-) 1:01pm Cube by Hauschka on Salon des Amateurs (-) 1:04pm Path Fades into the Forest by Susumu Yokota and Rothko on Distant Sounds of Summer (-) 1:10pm I Have the Moon, You Have the Internet by The Field on Yesterday & Today (-) 1:17pm Rafting Starlit Everglades by Baths on Cerulean (Anticon) 1:20pm Space Cruise (Title) by Ben Prunty on FTL: Faster Than Light OST (-) 1:24pm Illusion of Seclusion by Photay on Photay (Astro Nautico) 1:28pm Multi-Family Garage Sale (bargain-bin mix) by Land of the Loops on Bundle of Joy (Up Records) 1:30pm This Bum's Paid by Out Hud on Street Dad (-) 1:36pm Reset Head by Seekae on +Dome (-) 1:38pm Hipbone by Vondelpark on nyc stuff and nyc bags ep (-) 1:43pm Summer Haze by Shapeshifter on Soulstice (-) 1:48pm Lamb by Anjelica on Between Darkness & Wonder (-) 1:51pm Know You by Bonobo on The North Borders (-) 1:55pm HyperParadise (Flume Remix) by Hermitude on Parallel Paradise (-) 1:59pm Outro by Vulfpeck on Vollmich (-)

2D fighters have more depth than you can imagine! The Dreaded and Angry Challenger will help you understand some of the many character types prevalent in today's fighting games! Sit down by the [Kusanagi] fire and listen up to the two Challengers break it down for you [like a stack of bricks]. Then we'll help advise you on who YOU should choose (hint: whoever you want--with some caveats). Come play us online! Dreaded Challenger on PSN: DreadedA87 Angry Challenger on Steam/PSN: Whodigiya The New Challengers on YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCXKfzTlPxuBijUDgfSIwQSw New Challengers on Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheNewChallengers The Angry Challenger's YouTube shenanigans: www.youtube.com/user/Whodigiya Angry Challenger's Twitter: twitter.com/Whodigiya Resources: More Archetypes: http://forums.shoryuken.com/discussion/156294/list-of-fighting-game-archetypes

Canal plus fue un reducto de la cultura asiática para muchos de los afortunados que de un modo u otro podíamos acceder hasta sus emisiones en cerrado (yo en mi caso a través del decodificador de un vecino que lo puso comunitario... gracias por descubrirme las noches más X ¬¬) y de este modo pudimos descubrir grandes obras de la animación japonesa que no llegaban a todos los videoclubs (al menos a los de Albacete) como "Roujin Z", "Appleseed", "Akira" o la aquí tratada "Ghost in the shell" en una de sus míticas noches del dedicadas al anime. Una película que nos dejo a muchos con el culo torcido al presentarnos un universo oscuro, serio y un mucho más adulto de lo habitualmente ofrecido por el resto del anime que nos llegaba tipo "Ranma 1/2" o "Chicho Terremoto". Yo recuerdo que me fascinó y aún la tengo grabada en Vhs junto a Appleseed, aunque tras la reciente visualización junto con el resto del material de animación de la saga se ha quedado en una posición bastante delicada, ya que ahora con más años se le pueden achacar bastantes fallos que la alejan del titulo de obra maestra que durante años le había otorgado. La mayor Motoko Kusanagi (si aún no la conoces te aseguro que conquistará en Stand alone complex) es el personaje principal de mangas, series y Ovas y junto a ella a través de la historia de la Sección 9 descubriremos un futuro en el que la tecnología aporta tantas ventajas como inconvenientes y como por mucho futuro que sea en la instituciones publicas hay el mismo (o más) nivel de sinvergonzonería que lo que vemos a diario en las noticias. Y sin más alojados en la dieciseisava edición del salón Albanime un equipo de ciborgs con los diferentes miembros hiperdesarrollados ¬¬ formado por: David Webb, Chechu, Miguel Skywalker, Javillo y el aquí siempre escribiente Domingo Dark Vinyl, nos reunimos en un capitulo bastante más corto de lo solemos estar acostumbrados para debatir sobre si el espíritu de la mayor Kusanagi pesa más o menos que una bolsa de patatas de Matutano.

Canal plus fue un reducto de la cultura asiática para muchos de los afortunados que de un modo u otro podíamos acceder hasta sus emisiones en cerrado (yo en mi caso a través del decodificador de un vecino que lo puso comunitario... gracias por descubrirme las noches más X ¬¬) y de este modo pudimos descubrir grandes obras de la animación japonesa que no llegaban a todos los videoclubs (al menos a los de Albacete) como "Roujin Z", "Appleseed", "Akira" o la aquí tratada "Ghost in the shell" en una de sus míticas noches del dedicadas al anime. Una película que nos dejo a muchos con el culo torcido al presentarnos un universo oscuro, serio y un mucho más adulto de lo habitualmente ofrecido por el resto del anime que nos llegaba tipo "Ranma 1/2" o "Chicho Terremoto". Yo recuerdo que me fascinó y aún la tengo grabada en Vhs junto a Appleseed, aunque tras la reciente visualización junto con el resto del material de animación de la saga se ha quedado en una posición bastante delicada, ya que ahora con más años se le pueden achacar bastantes fallos que la alejan del titulo de obra maestra que durante años le había otorgado. La mayor Motoko Kusanagi (si aún no la conoces te aseguro que conquistará en Stand alone complex) es el personaje principal de mangas, series y Ovas y junto a ella a través de la historia de la Sección 9 descubriremos un futuro en el que la tecnología aporta tantas ventajas como inconvenientes y como por mucho futuro que sea en la instituciones publicas hay el mismo (o más) nivel de sinvergonzonería que lo que vemos a diario en las noticias. Y sin más alojados en la dieciseisava edición del salón Albanime un equipo de ciborgs con los diferentes miembros hiperdesarrollados ¬¬ formado por: David Webb, Chechu, Miguel Skywalker, Javillo y el aquí siempre escribiente Domingo Dark Vinyl, nos reunimos en un capitulo bastante más corto de lo solemos estar acostumbrados para debatir sobre si el espíritu de la mayor Kusanagi pesa más o menos que una bolsa de patatas de Matutano.

Imagine yourself an animal. If you could choose, what would it be? What animal represents your spirit? For this week's episode of Metro Files, we asked Washingtonians to ponder this question. And the answers we received were special. Til, next time. maDCap Narrator: Andy Duke. https://twitter.com/dukeyradioshow Host: Marina Di Marzo Producers: Naomi Harris, Daniel Stecker Photo Drew Snadecki Songs uses were Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix and @odesza's Kusanagi

Imagine yourself an animal. If you could choose, what would it be? What animal represents your spirit? For this week's episode of Metro Files, we asked Washingtonians to ponder this question. And the answers we received were special. Til, next time. maDCap Narrator: Andy Duke. https://twitter.com/dukeyradioshow Host: Marina Di Marzo Producers: Naomi Harris, Daniel Stecker Photo Drew Snadecki Songs uses were Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix and @odesza's Kusanagi

Et une nouvelle émission, une ! Vous nous l’aviez suggéré, et on vous a écouté, une nouvelle émission pour Bas Gros Poing ! Enfin d’émission, on va plutôt qualifier ça de « Petit point technique ». En effet certains ont suggéré qu’on parle de l’évolution d’un personnage à travers tous les jeux qu’il a traversé, comprendre quels étaient les enjeux qu’il incarnait, et au final si le personnage ne s’est pas un peu perdu en route ou au contraire à gagné en charisme. Frionel nous explique dans ce premier épisode comment SNK a fait évoluer Kyo Kusanagi à travers les douze épisodes de King of Fighters. D’un shoto déjà original à un personnage très offensif, il évoluera pour avoir plus de mix-ups et reviendra au zoning. On aborde donc beaucoup de points techniques dans cette nouvelle émission, et pour que certains ne se perdent pas, vous pouvez suivre l’émission tout en regardant les gifs animés prévus à cet effet. Bonne écoute à tous !

Podcast manga review of Hero Tales Volume 1 by Hiromu Arakawa. Story by Huang Jin Zhou. Scenario by Ryou Yashiro. Art Configuration by Kusanagi. Translated by Amy Forsyth. Originally published in Japan by Square Enix. Published in US by Yen Press, $10.99, Rated Older Teen. From the back cover:   Legend speaks of seven heroes, each one bearing the power of one of the stars of the Big Dipper. Two of these stars are constantly in conflict, destined to battle and throw the world into chaos... Taitou has never paid much attention to old stories. Headstrong and defiant, he is the last in his village to complete his coming-of-age ceremony - a fact his sister Laila incessantly teases him about. When he is finally deemed worthy, he is presented with the Kenkaranbu, an ancient sword that can only be drawn by a true hero. As the frustrated Taitou struggles to unsheathe the sword, a mysterious thief appears, making off with the blade and citing the legend of the Big Dipper. The stars have been set in motion, as Taitou sets off after the Kenkaranbu and the truth of his own destiny... Hiromu Arakawa, creator of Fullmetal Alchemist, brings the legend to life! My Grade: B+