samurai

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Japan

memoirs of a secret empire
2004
Examines the history of Japan from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, during which the island country completely isolated itself from the world and nurtured its own unique culture of shogun, samurai, and geishas.

The three trees of the Samurai

1969
A former Samurai warrior, old and stripped of his possessions, lives only to serve his prince once again.

Samurai

2010

The most daring raid of the samurai

2011
Describes the Okinawa raid of 1609, discussing its origins, planning, execution, and outcome, and including photographs, maps, and illustrations.

Samurai

2006
Simon St. George and his father, the last members of the Order of Dragonhunters, must join forces with a group of Japanese samurai to destroy the dragons in the Far East.

The samurai's tale

1990
In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is taken in by a general serving the great warlord Takeda Shingen and grows up to become a samurai fighting for the enemies of his dead family.

Samurai legend

2003
A graphic novel featuring historic samurai Yagyu Jubei, in which Jubei must protect Japan from falling into civil war by finding a stolen book he swore to protect years ago.

The samurai's tale

2005
In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is taken in by a general serving the great warlord Takeda Shingen and grows up to become a samurai fighting for the enemies of his dead family.

The demon in the teahouse

2002
In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.

Island of ogres

1989
An unemployed samurai reluctantly helps solve a mystery and prevent the overthrow of a young ruler on an island in medieval Japan.

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