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, Vol. 1
Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
Cloud of Sparrows (Samurai Series)
Taiko
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 1: The Ronin (Usagi Yojimbo, #1)
Vagabond, Volume 1
Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)
The 47 Ronin Story
Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 02
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
139 books — 20 voters
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine ArdenThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahAcross the Nightingale Floor by Lian HearnNightingale by Melissa MickelsenNightingale Songs by Simon Strantzas
Nightingale
67 books — 16 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
Shōgun by James ClavellMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiStrange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi KawakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Fictitious Japan
204 books — 38 voters

Rainbirds by Clarissa GoenawanMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenShōgun by James ClavellThe Pillow Book by Sei ShōnagonThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Japan
271 books — 82 voters
Introduction to Chain Mail by Liz CademyHow To Forge A Helmet by Joe PielaTechniques Of Medieval Armour Reproduction by Brian R. PriceThe Art of Making Armour by Rob Valentine
Books About Making Armor
4 books — 2 voters

James Clavell
Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it.
James Clavell, Shōgun

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