Greg Jenner

The image is the image that everyone has in their head, you know, like the armor and the swords and these sorts of things. I think that it's like a hereditary thing or a family thing.

It's linked to like your family or a house or whatever, but it comes with its own set of particular duties, but also its own particular set of privileges, such as basically being able to do whatever you want to anyone who isn't a samurai.

It's linked to like your family or a house or whatever, but it comes with its own set of particular duties, but also its own particular set of privileges, such as basically being able to do whatever you want to anyone who isn't a samurai.

So you just become a civil servant after a while.

So you just become a civil servant after a while.

I'm being paid £8,000 to be honest. Oh, really?

I'm being paid £8,000 to be honest. Oh, really?

Yeah, I like sake.

Yeah, I like sake.

Again, listen, I'm going off a documentary that I recently watched, right? But I think that if you were, let's just say, at random... a 17th century naval explorer who landed from England on a Dutch ship, you would be really struck by both the size and cleanliness of the cities relative to those you were used to in your native Europe.

Again, listen, I'm going off a documentary that I recently watched, right? But I think that if you were, let's just say, at random... a 17th century naval explorer who landed from England on a Dutch ship, you would be really struck by both the size and cleanliness of the cities relative to those you were used to in your native Europe.

Huge theatrical tradition.

Huge theatrical tradition.

In Japan, for sure. Musical tradition, poetic tradition. Those would be three of my guesses. Excellent guesses.

In Japan, for sure. Musical tradition, poetic tradition. Those would be three of my guesses. Excellent guesses.

My understanding was that basically during the Tokugawa shogunate, with the exception of like certain sort of naval trading relationships with China and Korea, pretty much cut off from the rest of the world, intentionally self cut off from the rest of the world until the Meiji Restoration.

My understanding was that basically during the Tokugawa shogunate, with the exception of like certain sort of naval trading relationships with China and Korea, pretty much cut off from the rest of the world, intentionally self cut off from the rest of the world until the Meiji Restoration.

I have lived in this world long before any of you and will be here long after.

I have lived in this world long before any of you and will be here long after.

As a British Indian man, it's something that I have a passing familiarity with. There are complex historical reasons between this face and this voice.