Samurai – Origins, History, and Culture of the Japanese Warrior Class
Introduction There is a certain sense of almost fantastical fascination when it comes to the popular scope of Samurai warriors. But if we dissociate popular…
Introduction There is a certain sense of almost fantastical fascination when it comes to the popular scope of Samurai warriors. But if we dissociate popular…
Last year, we talked about how a Samurai handbook taught a flurry of martial skills to Japanese cops. Well a mysterious Samurai text known simply…
Excavations conducted in the years 2014 and 2015 inside an early 6th century tomb in Shimauchi district, in the southern part of Kyushu, Japan, have…
Japanese archaeologists have announced that they had unearthed ancient Roman coins at the ruins of the medieval Katsuren castle in Okinawa. Suffice it to say,…
Earlier in the month, we harped about the oldest continuously operating library in the world, an honor belonging to Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt. Well…
A few days ago, we talked about how researchers were perplexed by the sheer scale of violence in Bronze Age northern Europe, as was recently…
A recently translated book from 1888 provides insights into the Samurai scope of fighting and martial arts, and that too with a societal angle. That…