Season 1 · Episode 3
S1E3 - The Yamato Confederation
The Kingdom of Yamato rises on the island of Honshu.
The Saga of Japan · Charles Shanahan
March 3, 202014m 12s
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Show Notes
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.