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.

History of the End of the Samurai: The Imperial Army - Now that the Boshin War was over, the Meji Emperor could finally settle into the bloodless revolution and start modernizing Japan.

of samurai whose forebears had been waging war for centuries, suddenly had to find new ways to survive outside the army. An 18th-century guard from the hilt of a Japanese katana sword. In the mid ...

His father was a samurai—one of those ferocious ... Never before had any Japanese spoken of negotiating with the Chungking Government. The Army hotly denied that its telegram to Generalissimo ...

Though Yasuke was the only Black samurai in Nobunaga’s army, he was by no means the only African present in Japan at the time. “Several hundred African people lived in Japan during the 16th ...

The castle would have been nearly impossible for an advancing army to assault ... among lower-ranking samurai and townspeople. “The tea ceremony is emblematic of Japanese culture.

The real-life Tokugawa would raise an army against the combined forces of samurai leader Ishida Mitsunari (on whom Lord Ishido is based), and the two would meet at Sekigahara for control of Japan ...

By Gavin Blair By the time the samurai film genre, along with Japanese cinema itself, announced its presence on the global stage at the dawn of the 1950s with Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon ...