Eastern Love: Comrade-loves of the Samurai by Saïkaku Ebara and

2 meanings: 1 the Japanese warrior caste that provided the administrative and fighting aristocracy from the 11th to the 19th

Yasuke was an African warrior in the employ of Nobunaga, a powerful feudal lord known as the “Great Unifier,” during Japan's Sengoku period The

samuri On a backstreet in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo, between a seafood wholesaler and a jewellery shop, stands a simple monument It marks the

samuri The first samurai protected vast lands owned by members of Japan's upper class Gradually the samurai spread out across the country and got their own pieces of