Anyone who knows anything about Japan has heard of seppuku or seen it in a samurai film. Seppuku was a ritualized form of suicide and a judicial sentence| 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
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
Here's a collection of books to help expand your knowledge about Japan. I’ve referred to these books for my various writing projects. This list skews| Japan Powered