Samurai


Musashi
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
The Way of the Warrior (Young Samurai, #1)
Rurouni Kenshin, Vol. 1
Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
Cloud of Sparrows (Samurai Series)
Taiko
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 1: The Ronin (Usagi Yojimbo, #1)
Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)
Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 02
Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road (Lone Wolf and Cub, #1)
Blade of the Immortal, Volume 1: Blood of a Thousand
Rainbirds by Clarissa GoenawanMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenShōgun by James ClavellThe Pillow Book by Sei ShōnagonThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Japan
271 books — 82 voters
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto MusashiThe Art of War by Sun Tzu  by Sun TzuInstruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai by Alexei Maxim RussellShōgun by James ClavellHagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Samurai: The Best Books
43 books — 32 voters

Shōgun by James ClavellMusashi by Eiji YoshikawaTaiko by Eiji YoshikawaThe 47 Ronin Story by John AllynA Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
Top Samurai Novels
83 books — 107 voters

Shōgun by James ClavellAcross the Nightingale Floor by Lian HearnAnalogies Shorinjiryu Karatedo, Golf & Baseball by Mr. Emanuel Hawthorne KyoshiThe Ninja by Eric Van LustbaderThe Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson
Martial Arts Fiction
289 books — 226 voters
Last Cherry Blossom by Kathleen BurkinshawTokyo Ever After by Emiko JeanSadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor CoerrI Love You So Mochi by Sarah KuhnThe Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy Hoobler
Japan in Juvenile Fiction
139 books — 20 voters

Aron Lewes
This better work. If it doesn’t work, I’ll have failed her. I don’t want to let her down.
Aron Lewes, School For Spirits

Takamasa Saegusa: 'Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our lord had already decided to subject him to tu-uchi before long. Cut off his head immediately, and stick it on a pike!' Gennosuke could hardly believe his ears. Such an insult to Irako Seigen was unwarranted. It was pride. For Gennosuke, Irako Seigen was pride itself. Takamasa Saegusa: 'Fujiki Gennosuke! It is the way of the samurai to take the head of the defeat ...more
Takayuki Yamaguchi, シグルイ 15

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