183 – On A Legacy Of Matcha: Tsujiri Matcha, The Podium

The year is 1860 in Japan. Commodore Matthew Perry opened up the once-isolated nation to world trade five years before, ending the Tokugawa shogunate's sakoku policy implemented two centuries prior. Conflict between the French-backed pro-shogunate forces and British-supported imperial loyalists was fomenting. The full-blown Boshin War eventually broke out between the two sides, with firearms …

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