Lucian Swift Kirtland (1881-1965), walking Japan's ancient Tōkaidō and Nakasendō highroads on the eve of the First World War, is still ...

Robert Fortune (1812-80), a Scottish botanist from Kelloe, was an avid traveler and plant hunter, who is still known for introducing the West a large ...

This is the true story of the eventful history of the famous Yagyū clan—a story that began during the early heady days of the Genkō Rebellion ...

Dieses Buch erzählt die vollständige Geschich­te der Yagyū, die durch eine Reihe von unverschuldeten Unglücken zuerst ihre Unabhängigkeit ...

Annie Brassey (1839–87), was perhaps the first Western woman to arrive in Japan on her own family yacht, the Sunbeam. Having departed from Chatham ...

“Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index…and beautiful layout ...

On 14 September 1862, four Brits encountered the procession of the nobleman Shimazu Hisamitsu at a village called Namamugi along Japan's ancient Tōkaidō ...

Known from his collaboration on the Netflix documentary Age of Samurai , historian William de Lange returns to what he does best: highly anecdotal stories ...

Izumi Shikibu (978–??), author, femme fatale, and prominent member of the Heian court, was first and foremost a poet—the greatest of her ...

"Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index...and beautiful layout to boot." ...