This has been an *eventful* year for Friday Night History, and it's all thanks to you. Let's get into some of the numbers as to how and why that is.
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Members' Episode 4 of "Dragon Ascendant" just dropped on the Patreon, in which we discuss the alleged Five Precepts of Date Masamune and how they're fictional.
Here's what you need to know.
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Members' Episode 3 of "Dragon Ascendant" just dropped on the Patreon, in which we discuss a 1959 film about Masamune. Here's what you need to know.
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Taking stock of Season Four, and considering what comes next.
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This week, Friday Night History is off. Here's why, and what comes next.
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The year is 2025, and in modern Sendai, the City of Immortals, Date Masamune enjoys a strange immortality. We examine the story of an unlikely shrine and a beloved statue that tell us more about his city than the man himself. And finally, we visit his greatest monument of all.
Sound effects from Pixabay.com/sound-effects include: walking-on-leaves by MUSICHOLDER, Walking by freesound community, Walking on a Gravel by kokoreli777, Tokyo Street by freesound_community, Tokyo_Cicada by freesound_community, and Japanese bush warbler (uguisu) in a city ambiance, by freesound_community
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Date Masamune makes a desperate, white-knuckle trip to reach Edo before death claims him. The nation mourns the dragon's passing. And at Otamaya, just south of Mount Aoba on the banks of the Hirose, the making of a legend is completed.
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The shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu's relationship with Date Masamune deepens. Masamune continues to party hard and live and love boldy. And for an outspoken statement in an unexpected place, Masamune receives an unexpected privilege.
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On Date Masamune's orders, Kawamura Magobe'e tames the fourth largest river in Japan, and a Chinese refugee wizard named Wang Yi joins one of Masamune's sons to tame an unruly volcano that threatens life and agriculture alike.
One of these endeavors will come at a terrible price.
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Hasekura Tsunenaga returns from Rome to a changed Japan. With the attainder of Yamagata Domain, Lady Yoshi chooses relocation to Sendai and reenters our story. And with the ascension of the third shogun Iemitsu, Date Masamune confronts a shogunate that was in fact here to stay.
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Date Masamune embraces a Renaissance man's range of hobbies. Tokugawa Hidetada works to undergird his family's marriage alliance with house Date. And as Hasekura Tsunenaga returns home, one ship has an unexpected afterlife.
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House Date goes for broke against the Toyotomi clan in Osaka. Hasekura Tsunenaga and Luis Sotelo weather Jesuit interference as they try to lobby Pope Paul V for aid. And as the dust settles, the last of the Three Great Unifiers takes his leave of the world.
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A Nahua noble witnesses samurai from Sendai entering Mexico City. Tokugawa Ieyasu goes to war in Osaka to take care of one last loose end. And with one of the men he loved leading the vanguard, Date Masamune once again heads for battle.
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Two chance encounters with Spaniards in Edo leads to the longest of Date Masamune's attempted long shots. A visitor from afar praises Sendai Castle. And a man named Hasekura Tsunenaga enters our story.
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The Tokugawa Shogunate becomes hereditary, and policy toward indigenous Christians begins to shift. Meanwhile in the north, Date Masamune emerges as a great protector-- to noted Buddhist and Shinto places of worship, as well as to Christians seeking safety.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes shogun, while Date Masamune returns home to oversee the construction of a new, grand shrine to Hachiman-okami, one whose history offers us clues about Masamune's self-image.
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"That city's name is Sendai."
Date Masamune founds a new city with a name fit for the home of a Daoist immortal, while Tokugawa Ieyasu sees to the disposition of rewards and punishments after Sekigahara.
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The Tokugawa and Ishida armies stumble into each other in the misty Mino mountains at Sekigahara. But meanwhile in Michinoku, Date Masamune goes for broke on all fronts.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu marches north. Date Masamune's armies descend like an avalanche on the Uesugi men. And in the west, Torii Mototada stands fast as the trap Ieyasu feared is sprung.
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Uesugi Kagekatsu builds a new castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu builds a coalition, while Date Masamune goes home to raise an army. And an Englishman from Kent, on a ship from Holland, washes ashore in Kyushu.
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