RealEdoLife·Nov 2Could Samurai Marry Anyone? Marriage, Rank, and a Famous Loophole in Edo JapanThink a samurai could marry anyone? Not even close.
RealEdoLife·Oct 26Samurai Had No Wars for 200 Years. Here’s How They Trained AnywayFor more than two hundred years, most samurai never fought a single battle.
RealEdoLife·Oct 23A samurai sword and a folding fan resting beside leather-bound books and an oil lamp in a Western…The most famous book on the samurai code was written in English, after the samurai were gone.
RealEdoLife·Oct 23Why Samurai Carried Two Swords (And Why Only One Was for Fighting)Think samurai carried two swords to fight twice as hard? Not quite.
RealEdoLife·Oct 21Edo Was the World’s Biggest City. Its Commoners Lived on Only 15% of It.Edo, around the 1700s, was one of the largest cities in the world, with roughly a million people. But who got to use the land is a very…
Muku Watanabe·Oct 19Zunda: Beacon on the Silk Road (Part 3: Date Masamune and the Soybean)Section 1: The Yonezawa Castle Years
InJaponica PublicationbyPaopao·Oct 17The Man Who Was Cut Down 50,000 TimesSeizo Fukumoto is Japan’s legendary kirare-yaku who made an art out of being killed in sword battles in Japanese dramas
InDoctor FunnybyMajibai (माजिभै)·Oct 14The Sacred Art of Disaster — A One-Person-Only TechniqueWho Needs a Katana When Anything Is Allowed?A response icon2A response icon2
