MAIDEN JAPAN

You’re literally the man who wrote the book on samurai…

“Well, half of the book is dedicated to what I would term ‘pre-modern’ samurai, which is to say from their origins in the 8th or 9th century CE up to the Warring States period [civil war lasting from the late 15th to the late 16th century]. The second half covers the Tokugawa period, also known as the Edo period, from the 1600s to the collapse of the warrior regime in 1868 and