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CRRL Picks: Adventures in Old Japan

Fiction about Japan's medieval era and Edo Period! (With some nonfiction as well)

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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.
    Book, 2002New York : Riverhead Books, 2002. — FICTION Hea
  • The story of Yasuke, an African man who became a retainer of the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga in the 16th century.
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario : Scribner Canada, 2023. — FICTION Shr
  • Part of Rowland's long-running mystery series about private investigator Sano Ichiro, who works for a shōgun in 17th-century Japan.
    Book, 2000New York : St. Martin's, 2000.
  • The original miniseries adaptation of Clavell's novel that first aired in 1980.
    DVD, 2003Los Angeles : Paramount Home Video, [2003] — 7.9145 Ja
  • A novel about Miyamoto Musashi, who may have been the greatest samurai swordsman to have ever lived.
    Book, 1995Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International, 1995, ©1981. — FICTION Yos
  • Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's acclaimed adapatation of Shakespeare's King Lear.
    DVD, 2005[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2005], ©2005. — 7.914 Ra
  • Samurai Battles

    Japan's Warrior Lords in 700 Years of Conflict

    Sharpe, Mike, 1970-
    A history that details the role of samurai up until the time the class disappeared at the Meiji Restoration (1868-1889).
    Book, 2009New Jersey : Chartwell, 2009. — 952 Sa
  • Samurai

    the Weapons and Spirit of the Japanese Warrior

    Sinclaire, Clive
    This book describes weapons used by samurai and features pictures of artifacts.
    Book, 2004Guilford, CT : Lyons Press, 2004. — 739.722 Si
  • 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.
    DVD, 2006[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2006. — 7.914 Se
  • A historical novel about the persecution of Christians in Japan during the early 17th century.
    Book, 2016New York : Picador Modern Classics, 2016. — FICTION End
  • This book, by Lady Murasaki, is one of the oldest narratives written in novel format, having been written in the 11th century.
    Book, 2015New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. — FICTION Mur
  • A novel about the adventures of a Dutch clerk, set during the Dutch trading concession with Japan in the late 18th century.
    Book, 2010New York : Random House, [2010], ©2010. — FICTION Mit
  • Describes the techniques and armaments of samurai, warrior monks, and ninja.
    Book, 2005Oxford : Osprey, 2005. — 355.0095 Tu
  • 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.
    DVD, 2006[Irvington, N.Y.] : [Distributed by] Criterion Collection, [2006] — 7.914 Yo