Folks, this is a post to explain the new goal on the Patreon at http://patreon.com/riversidewings and to talk a bit about what you’re making possible and where I hope to take things. Right now, we’re at $666, and it’s helping me devote more time to creating Friday Night History, my…

To support this series and the rest of my work, sign up to be a patron at my Patreon and subscribe at my Twitch channel. Thank you! Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve looked at two cartographers of the late Edo period, Ino Hanzaemon and his disciple Mamiya Rinzo…

To support this series and the rest of my work, sign up to be a patron at my Patreon and subscribe at my Twitch channel. Thank you! Last week, we looked at Mamiya Rinzō, his surveys of Ezochi- the land we now call Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kurile Islands- and…

Folks, Season 1 of Friday Night History is coming to a close soon- though the series itself has been running for exactly 2 years as of my writing these words. The stats on Anchor.com for the podcast tell me that it’s had just shy of 1000 listens in total, and…

To support this series and the rest of my work, sign up to be a patron at my Patreon and subscribe at my Twitch channel. Thank you! Today, Japanese maps (and world maps) take for granted that Hokkaido and Sakhalin are islands. This is not surprising. But there was a…

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Folks, hello! It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? To offer a word of re-introduction, I am Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian: Novelist, artist, recovering academic, raconteur, and Your Favorite Historydyke. You might know me from my podcast Friday Night History, you might know me from my Twitch stream, or you might know…

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To support this series and the rest of my work, sign up to be a patron at my Patreon and subscribe at my Twitch channel. Thank you! There’s a rule for good satire: punch up. This was no less the case in the Edo period. And one of the major…