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In the 17th century, the first Japanese ever to set foot in Europe travel to Rome on a diplomatic mission. All are baptised, but upon returning to Japan they discover that the Shoguns no longer wish to forge links with the West, nor will they tolerate the Christian religion. The Samurai who have until now reviled their adoptive religion, begin to find it may be all that is left for them. The events in this story actually took place.

Japanese culture has fascinated the West ever since the country’s doors opened up in the 1800s. In many ways, Japan has remained elusive, and people have travelled from all around the world to see for themselves how unique this nation remains. Another way of exploring this enigmatic culture is through its literature. The English language succeeds surprisingly well in revealing the Japanese sense of life.

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and by whom he has been touched. Inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival.

Japan, 1745, is a land under the iron grip of the Tokugawa shoguns. Roads are monitored, dissent stifled, and order maintained through blackmail and an extensive network of informers. Amid rumors of rebellion, Kurosawa Kinko—samurai and monk—is expelled in disgrace as the head music instructor of his Zen temple in Nagasaki. He begins an odyssey across Japan, dogged by agents and assassins from an unknown foe. Along his journey, Kinko encounters a compelling cast of merchants, ronin, courtesans, spies, warriors, hermits, and spirits, on a quest to redeem his honor.

Jack hat es geschafft: Er ist den Samurai des Shoguns entkommen und segelt auf einem Schiff Richtung Heimat. In seiner Begleitung: die tapfere Samurai-Kämpferin Akiko und der schlaue Mönch Yori. Doch als die Freunde London erreichen, werden sie alles andere als freundlich empfangen. Und nicht nur das: Ein dunkler Schatten ist ihnen aus Japan gefolgt.

April 1943 - A Mitsubishi transport plane, carrying Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, plunges from the sky over the island of Bougainville. In a document case chained to his wrist is the greatest secret of the Second World War. . . December 2011 - Art recovery expert Jamie Saintclair is offered a lucrative commission: he has been tasked to find the preserved head of a Solomon Island warrior, missing from a German museum since 1945?

I am Kozaisho: Fifth daughter, Woman-For-Play, teller of stories, lover, wife and Flower Samurai. In the rich, dazzling, brutal world of twelfth century Japan, one young girl begins her epic journey, from the warmth of family to the Village of Outcasts. Marked out by an auspicious omen, she is trained in the ancient warrior arts of the samurai. But it is through the power of storytelling that she learns to fight her fate, twisting her life onto a path even she could not have imagined...

The winter of 1578, four years prior to the Honno–ji Incident. Araki Murashige has betrayed his ally Oda Nobunaga and holed himself up in Arioka Castle—but a string of unsettling incidents within the castle walls has him at his wit’s end. The desperate warlord’s only hope for solving...

Extremadura 1941 / Barcelona 1981 Dos tramas se desarrollan de forma paralela; una en Extremadura en el año 1941; la otra en Barcelona en 1981. Un crimen cometido durante la posguerra española produce consecuencias en tres generaciones de la familia Alcalá y en aquellos que se han cruzado en...

For those looking for the real story behind the fictionalized movie account of the 47 Ronin story, this is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master, and faced certain death as a result. It led to one of the bloodiest episodes in Japanese history, and in the process, created a new set of heroes in Japan.

En 1613 sale de Japón una expedición insólita de veintidós samuráis con rumbo a España. Después de un año de viaje por fin llegan a Sanlúcar de Barrameda para cumplir su misión organizada por el Shogun de Japón: entablar relaciones comerciales con España y sus colonias a cambio de extender su vinculo al mundo católico. Son recibidos por el Séptimo Duque de Medina Sidonia. Shiro, uno de los guerreros japoneses, acaba enamorándose de una aristócrata sevillana que se llama Guada. Ella le corresponde y a pesar de los tabúes sociales y las enormes diferencias culturales consiguen estar juntos.

This is audiobook #19 in the Casca Series.

Casca Longinus, cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages, and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting and surviving, he must wait for Christ to return.

算術は剣術より強し、武士の世が終わる！　柳生新陰流の剣豪・柳生宗矩の隠し子にして、大坂一の唐物問屋の孫・淡海屋一夜が、江戸幕府の度肝を抜く奇策を仕込む！　シリーズ累計１３万部突破！

底知れぬ才を持つ大坂商人の一夜は、柳生の思惑と惣目付の陰謀を打破できるのか？　将軍の詭計と老中の怨嗟までもが絡み……。シリーズ累計２０万部突破！　不動の人気を誇る著者が贈る、武商相打つ時代小説！

御家騒動か！？　柳生宗矩と十兵衛が激突！一路大和へ向かう淡海一夜と柳生十兵衛。ふたりを襲う忍者や牢人ども。

享保7年(1722)、江戸幕府は財政の困窮を理由に、諸大名へ一万石につき百石の割合で米を差し出すよう命じた。世に言う「上米の制」である。八代将軍徳川吉宗の治世が揺らぐなか、当代一の蒔絵師と悪名高い検校が相次いで殺害された。

大坂一と言われる唐物問屋淡海屋七右衛門の孫である一夜は、突然現れた柳生家の者に、大名に格上げされたばかりの御家を救えと、無理やりに召し出されてしまった！？　大人気の旗手が描く、

虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ず――敵味方かかわりなく、懐に飛び込んでは綱渡りで生きていく、元大坂商人・淡海一夜。主家であるはずの柳生にすら命を狙われながら、上方へ旅に出るが……。

武士となったはいいが、老中にまで狙われる羽目になった、元大坂商人の淡海一夜。智謀を巡らし、敵の罠から突破しろ！　シリーズ累計２６万部突破！　隔絶した人気を集める著者が放つ、

柳生家の勘定方を勤める元大坂商人・淡海一夜は、藩の改易を企み、罠を張り巡らせる老中・堀田加賀守の懐に自ら飛び込んだ！？　武士道に商人道が真っ向勝負を挑む、痛快な時代小説！