Torii Suneemon Shouted the Opposite of What He Was Told
Torii Suneemon was a foot soldier. Not a samurai, not a retainer with a landed stipend, not a man who […]
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Torii Suneemon was a foot soldier. Not a samurai, not a retainer with a landed stipend, not a man who […]
The thing that nobody tells you about Miyamoto Musashi is that he was a better painter than he was a
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi has the worst nickname of any Tokugawa shōgun, and it is not his fault. The “Dog Shōgun” —
There was a generation of Sengoku warlords who gave themselves names and a generation who got their names from other
The reason I keep coming back to Sassa Narimasa, and the reason the other samurai of his generation kept talking