Shogun-ki

One of the best features of the Samurai Archives Citadel is that it’s designed to be inclusive. Virtually anyone with an interest in pr...

I am currently in Kyoto. I will have to follow up this post with pictures later, since I can't upload them from this hotel computer. I s...

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...