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Date Yoshikuni, daimyo of Sendai, tries to buy time for negotiation. Will Satsuma and Choshu listen?
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2 Oct 2026
Episode 154 (S5E11)- The Northern Mantle
A thousand years of fiercely guarded semiautonomy comes to a head as the Boshin War moves north. But what's the story behind that thousand years of precedent? And what does this have to do with a legendary disaster bisexual who invoked that history in his letters to the crowned heads of Europe?
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18 Sept 2026
Episode 153 (S5E10)- Last Stand of the Shogitai
North of Edo, Tokugawa Army units have unexpected success at Utsunomiya before blundering into Satsuma men in the rain. The Shogitai makes its last, doomed stand. And while the war in the Kanto is over, the war in the Tohoku mountains is already underway.
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