Post Script

in Sakai is a forward-thinking kind of samurai. He instinctively understands that a principled approach isn’t going to work against such a dishonourable opponent. He’s ahead of his time in other ways, too: he has, after all, managed to invent the haiku some four centuries before it actually existed and six before the term was coined. Anachronistic as its poetry may be, ’s moments of reflection are welcome: culturally and thematically meaningful if not historically accurate. And they’re a rare point of difference in a sandbox game that too often falls back on familiar ideas – with