Downsizing with Danshari

Tattoos and Burakumin

In this conversation we found ourselves discussing Japan’s outsiders—the Burakumin, Yakuza and tattoos, and the like. The conversation was completely unscripted, unplanned, and free flowing, and oddly enough, one of our best ever. We hope you enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com [https://liturgicalasia.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Narrating Japan's Christian Century

In this episode we interview author and speaker Walt Mussell, a mathematician by trade, but a historian of Japan by night. Walt focuses his talks on “Japan’s Christian century,” the hundred years or so between the 1540s to the 1640s when Christianity was legal and spreading in early Edo Japan. Walt also writes fiction based on this period. Walt's books [https://waltmussell.com/] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com [https://liturgicalasia.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Cosmic Renewal

In this episode Sean, Riki and I discuss our Easter 2025 experienes. Riki talks about her first time at an Eastern Orthodox Pascha (Easter) service, and I talk about my first experience of serving at the altar as an acolyte during Old Catholic Holy Week and Easter. Sean chimes in helpfully. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com [https://liturgicalasia.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Jacob the X Master

In the session of the podcast, recorded on X Spaces, we spent time with Jacob, a college student who is running a highly successful X account dedicated to the Catholic history of East Asia. Jacob was a breath of fresh air and it was a pleasure spending time with somewho who is simply using the X platform to explore a topic that is meaningful to them, and precisely because of this has been able to reach and inform many others on X with the same interest. Join us in this serendiptious crossing of paths. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com [https://liturgicalasia.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Downsizing with Danshari

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liturgicalasia.substack.com [https://liturgicalasia.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]