Miyamato Musashi's "The Way to be Followed Alone" (Dokkodo) - Japan Powered
Miyamato Musashi's work "The Way to be Followed Alone," or Dokkodo, is the samurai's lesser known work next to The Book of Five Rings (Gorin no| Japan Powered
Miyamato Musashi's work "The Way to be Followed Alone," or Dokkodo, is the samurai's lesser known work next to The Book of Five Rings (Gorin no| Japan Powered
Teahouse Mysteries Kanzashi Mameko never thought she’d witness a murder.Her life consists of songs, stories, lessons, and the other social demands| Japan Powered
There are a lot of ghouls, ghosts, and other nasty critters spooking around Japan. From bathrooms to cemeteries to the deep woods and everywhere in| Japan Powered
The Book of Bushido by Antony Cummins summarizes the landscape of bushido history and thought. Cummins touches on the contradictions found in the various| Japan Powered
Okakura wrote The Book of Tea in 1906. The books seeks to bridge and explain the Eastern perspective to the West. At the time, most people weren't| Japan Powered
Do you know what happens to a tool when it becomes 100 years old? What about a tree when it sees its 1,000th birthday? What does it matter if a dinner| Japan Powered
Geishas and the Floating World by Stephen and Ethel Longstreet examines the history and development of Tokyo’s red-light district of Yoshiwara. The name| Japan Powered
Bushido Explained offers a good primer to how samurai thought across Japan’s different time periods. As the subtitle of the book states, it is a new| Japan Powered
Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard's book African Samurai tries to mesh nonfiction with historical fiction. The result is a patchwork that felt more| Japan Powered
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) offered a view into Japan during the Meiji Restoration with his books: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Out of the East, Kokoro,| Japan Powered
The Hagakure appears obsessed with seppuku when you read through it. In the book, Yamamoto Tsunetomo collected myriad accounts of samurai from Saga domain| Japan Powered
Murasaki Shikibu wasn't her name. Like many female writers in history, we don't know her real name. Murasaki, however, is a nickname derived from her| Japan Powered
