Discover the powerful and largely untold history of Japan’s Onna-musha - female samurai warriors who stood alongside men on ...

A gory set of manuals, one dating to the 17th century, advised Japanese warriors in the secret ways of seppuku.

Using inspiration from this, we can utilise other moves that can build grip strength, including plate pinches, towel pull-ups and dead hangs. Still practiced today, samurai warriors would practice ...

In the seven centuries samurai ruled Japan, women played an essential role in both creating and upholding the warrior state. Aside from a brief period in the 14th century, the emperor was little ...

Dolmayan has a new comic book series titled Dead Samurai, marking the second comic book series he has written after Ascencia. Set in eighteenth-century feudal Japan, Dead Samurai follows a half ...

The samurai belonged to the intellectual elite ... poetry that often contrasted with the violent nature of battle. The warrior class rose to power in the 12th century, and their influence grew ...