Discover the powerful and largely untold history of Japan’s Onna-musha - female samurai warriors who stood alongside men on ...

In feudal Japan, the Onna-Bugeisha were fierce female warriors who defied gender norms to fight alongside samurai. Trained in ...

Samurai dominated the country of Japan from the 12th to the 19th century. The fierce, disciplined warriors lived according to the bushido code, an unwritten set of rules and norms based in loyalty ...

Medieval Japan may call to mind honorable sword-wielding ... But the Europeans did affect Japanese society. First, they introduced new shipbuilding techniques, firearms, eyeglasses, mechanical clocks, ...

From Confucianism, he learned the rudiments of behaviour towards others within a strictly hierarchical society ... and arguably most important in Japanese feudal history, which left up to ...

With “Ghosts of Yotei” and “Assassin’s Creed: Shadows” set for wide release in 2025, it looks as though feudal Japan is going to be on a lot of gamers’ minds this year. And with good ...

where he learned the cleverness of deception and strategy – all within the strict customs of Japanese feudal society. Without getting into the weeds, Ieyasu took over as daimyo for his late ...

A performer demonstrates "noh," a traditional Japanese theatrical form. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images) Among the world’s oldest theatrical forms that is still performed, Noh grew out of dance ...

Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in 1932 and used in U.S. college classrooms into the 1980s. In it, he described the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) as an era of oppressive “feudal ...