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Daily life in early modern Japan

2002
Describes the everyday lives of the common people in eighteenth-century Japan, covering such aspects as governance, religion, food, clothing, rural and urban work, family, sex, women, and amusements.

Samurai legend

2003
A graphic novel featuring historic samurai Yagyu Jubei, in which Jubei must protect Japan from falling into civil war by finding a stolen book he swore to protect years ago.

The demon in the teahouse

2002
In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.

Traditional Japan

1994
Discusses the historical, political, and cultural events of traditional Japan from ancient times to 1868.

Sam Samurai

2006
Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported to seventeenth century Japan where they infuriate a Samurai warrior, encounter their great-grandaughters, and save their lives by reciting an ancient form of poetry.

Young samurai

the way of the warrior
2009
Orphaned by a ninja pirate attack off the coast of Japan in 1611, twelve-year-old English lad Jack Fletcher is determined to prove himself, despite the bullying of fellow students, when the legendary sword master who rescued him begins training him as a samurai warrior.

Young samurai

the way of the dragon
2011
Jack Fletcher's warrior training is put to the test when Japan is threatened with war, and he comes face-to-face with his greatest enemy, ninja Dragon Eye.

Sisters of the sword

2008
Two aristocratic sisters in ancient Japan disguise themselves as samurai warriors to take revenge on the uncle who betrayed their family.

Blue fingers

a ninja's tale
2004
Having failed apprenticeship as a dye maker, Koji is captured and forced to train as a ninja, where he remains disloyal until he discovers samurai have burned his former village.

Young samurai

the way of the warrior
2010
Orphaned by a ninja pirate attack off the coast of Japan in 1611, twelve-year-old English lad Jack Fletcher is determined to prove himself, despite the bullying of fellow students, when the legendary sword master who rescued him begins training him as a samurai warrior.

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