What Dominic Sandbrook has said about Meiji Restoration
1 quote · 1 episode · Apr 5, 2026
Dominic Sandbrook, British historian, author and co-host of The Rest Is History, has been quoted on Meiji Restoration once in 1 episode of The Rest Is History, most recently on April 5, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Sandbrook characterises the Meiji Restoration as the moment Japan renounced a stultifying cult of the past and embraced modernity.
“it's the moment that Japan doesn't renounce the past, but it renounces maybe to some degree the stultifying cult of the past and throws itself into the pursuit of modernity”
The Rest Is History: 658. Dawn of the Samurai: The Shadow of the Sword (Part 1) (Apr 5, 2026) · Listen from 18:23
Episodes
658. Dawn of the Samurai: The Shadow of the Sword (Part 1)The Rest Is History · Apr 5, 2026 · 1 h 3 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the origins of Japan's samurai, from the Tokugawa shogunate and the Bushido myth back to the 10th-century warlord Taira no Masakado.
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