Shōtarō Ikenami’s newly translated novel is steeped in mystery, legend and the tensions of blood kin.
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The new series attempts to chart the fall of four major empires but doesn’t always get it right.
The novel is filled with distinctive characters, shady dealings, women of moral ambiguity and heroes and villains alike.
Archetypal components of western genre – gold hunting and revenge – are mashed up with a samurai-sword-wielding heroine.
Tornado demonstrates the continuing international influence of the Japanese samurai film.
One of the characters is based on Yasuke, a formerly enslaved black man from Mozambique, who worked for the Japanese war lord Oda Nobunaga.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa,1954’s Seven Samurai is a technical and creative watershed of the action genre and world cinema.
The series addresses the role of samurai, what life was like for women and people of mixed heritage, and violence in Edo-period Japan, with varying degrees of accuracy.
A former fencer who fell in love with the samurai sword explains how learning to wield the weapon can help people stave off trouble in other areas of life.
Despite the name, Children’s Day is usually considered as a festival of boys.
Like a Rorschach test, the incident offers limitless interpretations. But newly published photographs of Yukio Mishima in his final weeks alive show an artist obsessed with scripting out death.
As Japanese imperialism rose and fell, its leaders interpreted and re-interpreted a single distinctive concept: “bushido”.
A new exhibition has opened at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) on the figure of the Japanese samurai. Bushido: Way of the Samurai explores popular conceptions of the samurai – as well as their lesser…
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