Shogun-ki

We talk a lot about samurai at the Samurai Archives, needless to say. I think most of us take for granted what a samurai was , however. I...

I’ve been leading a small discussion group on the Samurai Archives Citadel forum on the topic of Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasions of Korea. We...

This past weekend I attended the 4th East Asian Tea Culture Symposium at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. From the Center for Japanese Stu...

Japan and Her People by Anna C. Hartshorne is now available at Amazon.com . This is a reprint of the original 1902 edition, published by Jet...

The website for the Samurai Archives Journal of Japanese History is now online and we are currently accepting submissions. Please see the w...

Two more sources on Takeda Shingen have details on his death - "Takeda Shingen" by Isogai Masayoshi, and "Takeda Gunki" ...