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Inventing the Samurai
- Instructor
- Prof. Hiromu Nagahara
- Term
- Fall 2022
- Level
- Undergraduate
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- 2 readings · 20 other files · 6 web pages
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About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21H.154 Inventing the Samurai, Fall 2022, Prof. Hiromu Nagahara — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Course outline
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 3: Overseas Influence and the Imperial State
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 4: Heian, the Era of “Peace and Tranquility”(?)
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 5: Court Culture and Spirituality
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 6: The First Samurai Wars
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 7: The First Samurai Government
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 8: The Ashikaga Shogunate and the Era of Rival Imperial Courts
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 9: From Fires in Kyoto to “Warring States”
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 10: The Unifiers
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 11: An Elizabethan Account of Hideyoshi’s Nephew
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 12: The Last (and Best?) Samurai Government
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 13: The “Forty-Seven Rōnin” Incident as History and Myth
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 14: Pictures and Stories of the Floating World
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 15: Tsuneno’s Journey
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 16: Tsuneno’s Edo
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 17: Samurai Corruption
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 18: “Dream-Besotted” Musui
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 19: The Fall of Tokugawa and Aizu
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 20: A Samurai Prince in 19th-Century Massachusetts
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Inventing the Samurai, Lectures 22 and 23: The Hidden Blade
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