Four newly translated Japanese texts describe how ritual samurai beheadings were supposed to take place during the Edo period and later. Four texts that discuss how the samurai carried out Seppuku ...

This perfect balance of properties is what made the katana the samurai's most durable and prized weapon. Coating the katana While the katana's body is now complete, the swordsmith's work is far ...

New translations of Japanese texts uncover the true nature of samurai beheading rituals during the Edo period.

He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status of a samurai warrior, and is the subject of two films being produced by Hollywood. Known as Yasuke, the man was a warrior ...

A lack of dollars helped drive down short-dated basis swaps, while rising issuances of samurai bonds impacted longer swaps, according to Shoki Omori, chief desk strategist at Mizuho Securities Co.

But on this page of Whitman’s pocket notebook, written sometime during the fall and winter of 1860-61, their imagined conversation begins. The print-obsessed Whitman loved toying with ideas for ...

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Hiroyuki Sanada stars as Yoshi Toranaga - an isolated but legendary samurai in pursuit of power Shogun - the razor-sharp, critically-acclaimed samurai epic that's transported viewers back to ...

None other than Abraham Lincoln owed his 1860 election to this kind of movement. New research is proving that youth activism played a critical role in the form of an organized movement who called ...

The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal. His victory, without a single Southern electoral vote, was a clear signal to the Southern states that they had ...

Publisher Kwalee and developer Digital Mind announced the Metroidvania game, The Spirit of the Samurai, will launch for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on December 12, and at a later date for ...