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• Across the Nightingale Floor

  Hearn, Lian

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  A fantasy novel about a boy living in an imaginary version of the Sengoku era of warring states in 15th and 16th century Japan.

• The African Samurai

  a Novel

  Shreve, Craig

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  The story of Yasuke, an African man who became a retainer of the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga in the 16th century.

• The Concubine's Tattoo

  Rowland, Laura Joh

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  Part of Rowland's long-running mystery series about private investigator Sano Ichiro, who works for a shōgun in 17th-century Japan.

• Foundations of Eastern Civilization. Episode 43, Medieval Japan - Samurai and Shoguns

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  An educational video on the role samurai played in medieval Japan.

• James Clavell's Shōgun

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  The original miniseries adaptation of Clavell's novel that first aired in 1980.

• Musashi

  Yoshikawa, Eiji, 1892-1962

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  A novel about Miyamoto Musashi, who may have been the greatest samurai swordsman to have ever lived.

• 乱

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  Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's acclaimed adapatation of Shakespeare's King Lear.

• Samurai Battles

  Japan's Warrior Lords in 700 Years of Conflict

  Sharpe, Mike, 1970-

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  A history that details the role of samurai up until the time the class disappeared at the Meiji Restoration (1868-1889).

• Samurai

  the Weapons and Spirit of the Japanese Warrior

  Sinclaire, Clive

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  This book describes weapons used by samurai and features pictures of artifacts.

• Seven samurai

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  A film by Akira Kurosawa about a group of warriors gathered to protect a village from bandits. An extremely influential film that would inspire many other narratives with similar plots, including The Magnificent Seven.

• Silence

  Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996

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  A historical novel about the persecution of Christians in Japan during the early 17th century.

• The Tale of Genji

  Murasaki Shikibu, 978?-

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  This book, by Lady Murasaki, is one of the oldest narratives written in novel format, having been written in the 11th century.

• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

  a Novel

  Mitchell, David (David Stephen)

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  A novel about the adventures of a Dutch clerk, set during the Dutch trading concession with Japan in the late 18th century.

• Understanding Japan: A Cultural History. Episode 8, Pure Land Buddhism and Zen Buddhism

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  An educational video on the spreading popularity of Pure Land Buddhism and Zen Buddhism during Japan's medieval period.

• Understanding Japan: A Cultural History. Episode 9, Samurai Culture in the Ashikaga Period

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  An educational video on samurai during the Muromachi Period (1336-1573), also known as the Ashikaga Shōgunate.

• Understanding Japan: A Cultural History. Episode 10, Japan at Home and Abroad, 1300 - 1600

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  Discusses Japan's foreign relations during its medieval period, up to the end of Sengoku.

• Understanding Japan: A Cultural History. Episode 11, Japan's Isolation in the Tokugawa Period

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  Explains how the Tokugawa shogunate intentionally kept Japan isolated from foreign influence.

• Understanding Japan: A Cultural History. Episode 12, Japanese Theater: Noh and Kabuki

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  Learn about the traditional Japanese theatrical forms Noh and Kabuki.

• Warriors of Medieval Japan

  Turnbull, Stephen R.

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  Describes the techniques and armaments of samurai, warrior monks, and ninja.

• 用心棒

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  A film by Akira Kurosawa about a rōnin (unattached to a clan) samurai who gets involved in a fight between two factions in a small town. This was the inspiration for Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name character.