S1E4 - The Korean Kingdoms

03/10/20 • 14 min

The Yamato state establishes early ties with the three Kingdoms of Korea. The Soga clan pushes for reforms and new doctrines such as Buddhism, while the Mononobe and the Nakatomi ally together to prevent this new threat to the Yamato way of life.

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S1E3 - The Yamato Confederation

We enter the Kofun period. Elaborate burial mounds are created for the rulers of Japan. Emperor Anko meets a bloody end at the hands of a child. The head of the Soga clan begins to marry his daughters into the Imperial House, so that he may the foundations for control of the Emperor.

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S1E5 - Fight Night in Yamato

The Soga and the Mononobe clans fight to determine the future of Japan. Prince Shotoku, Soga no Umako, and Empress Suiko help usher in foreign reforms.

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Source list: The Nihon Shoki (Primary Source) The Kojiki The Cambridge History of Japan Vol. 1 A Concise History of Japan by Brett Walker The History of Japan to 1334 by George Sansom Historians of China and Japan by W.G. Beasley and E.G. Pulleybank Japan: A Concise History - by Milton W. Meyer A History of Japan by John Caiger and Richard Mason

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