A comprehensive view of how the Samurai and Shoguns lived in Japan, their discipline and battle gear as well as other facts about typical behavior.

The true nature of the samurai warrior is an elusive and endlessly fascinating enigma for those in the west. From their inauspicious beginnings as barbarian-sub

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biogr

What Life Was Like Among Samurai and Shoguns tells the story of a grand empress's unstoppable ambition to determine who would rule her nation, along with many o

Explains the roots of Japanese militarism leading to World War II.