
Episode 456 - Stranger in the Shogun's City
History of Japan
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The Marriage of a Priest in Oi-Shida
Oi-Shida was a major growing center for safflower, with the golden flowers of the plant being compressed into disks and shipped off to Osaka. Suneno's marriage had lasted too long before the divorce. She didn't get divorced until 28, right on the upper bound of what was considered normal by the standard of the time.
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