Shogun-ki

In the latter half of the 19th Century, Japan would see 250 years of relative peace devolve into a bloody landscape of violence, with disil...

When one thinks about the common people of the Edo period, they probably think of a group of passive, law abiding, hard working farmers an...

"Ōishi Kuranosuke" leads the pack of Akō rōnin into Sengaku-ji. I went to the 47 Rōnin Festival at Sengaku-ji temple on Dec...

For years, the Hagakure (along with its spiritual cousin, "Bushido: The Soul of Japan") has been the bane of the Samurai Archives....

We’re happy to present our readers with the conclusion of our two-part interview with Romulus Hillsborough, author of the recently published...

A few years ago we ran an article about the ‘Selling of Sekigahara’ -how battles from Japan’s past were a popular subject for merchandising...