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, Volume 01
Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
Cloud of Sparrows (Samurai Series)
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 1: The Ronin (Usagi Yojimbo, #1)
Taiko
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
Shōgun by James ClavellAcross the Nightingale Floor by Lian HearnThe Ninja by Eric Van LustbaderThe Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. BorosonMusashi Book One by Eiji Yoshikawa
Martial Arts Fiction
283 books — 200 voters
Shōgun by James ClavellMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenStrange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi KawakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Fictitious Japan
139 books — 34 voters

The 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
140 books — 21 voters
Armor by C.B. TitusMagician by Raymond E. FeistTrapped in a Curse by Dale  JohnsonThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienDungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Magic Armour/Armor
17 books — 3 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

Eiji Yoshikawa
How to make his mother, whom he imagined to be the unhappiest person in the world, the happiest, was what drove him on.
Eiji Yoshikawa , Taiko

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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