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Okay. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, Episode 84, A Day in the Life of Rural Edel Japan.

Okay, yes, I know, I said Dushinto this week, but I've been doing some reading and some thinking,

and I've decided it's very important we go back and correct something from a previous episode.

You see, way back in episode 10, I talked a bit about daily life during the Tokugawa period.

During that episode, I said something about how rural life was pretty boring.

Farmers would get up, they'd till the soil, and when darkness fell, they'd go back home.

Since then, I've done a fair amount of reading, and it turns out that the picture that I painted was not entirely accurate.

So we're going to go back to the Edo period

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