Wonder Women
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Awakening From Sleep of a Peaceful World by Pacific Tea
The united states wanted to establish trade relations with the notoriously prickly japanese. When commodore matthew perry returns, negotiations quickly turn in the favor of the americans. After much turmoil and tedium that we don't have time to get into, all of this spark's a civil war. Nakano takeko was from a samurai family in the province of isu, an area fiercely loyal to the shogan. At a very young age, she had been sent to live with a teacher in edo. Under the tutelage of this man, she learn how to read and write. She learns the etiquette expected of a woman from her class, but also learns how
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