Samurai History & Culture Japan

A regular in-depth, researched newsletter on samurai history and culture.

Welcome to Samurai History & Culture,

This is a new, regular service providing a detailed, informative, timely and fascinating look at samurai history and culture, including historical personages, samurai related places, castles, events, battles, armor, weapons, samurai related news such as recent discoveries, events, museum exhibitions, books, movies and more.

This site is written and researched by a Japan based bilingual researcher.

For over 20 years I’ve presented  the “Samurai Culture & History” site on Facebook, and every day a great deal of time and effort is spent researching and writing these articles and answering the many history related questions that come in from around the world. If you’ve been following and enjoying the Samurai History and Culture Japan Facebook site, you’ll no doubt be aware that I have always strived to present easy to read and understand, informative, educational and quality articles. The contents and the accuracy has always been paramount, without getting bogged down in too much academic periphery. In many cases, sorting the fact from fiction, and explaining the stories behind the details has been most important. This new site will offer more in-depth articles than the Facebook page, plus, it is sent direct to you in advance.

Our aim is to promote an interest and understanding of the samurai, their history and culture. Your generous support and paid subscription allows more time and effort to be put into researching and writing better quality articles, interviews and videos.

Why Subscribe to Samurai History & Culture?

·      Regular detailed and informative articles on samurai history and culture prepared and sent at least three times a week, (if not more often) with exclusive pictures, source listings and references. All contents will be available as an archive to paid subscribers.

·      When samurai related discoveries or breaking news comes through, extra articles will be presented, including information on samurai related exhibitions, events, re-enactments, festivals, movies, books etc.

·      Interviews with samurai and history professors, researchers, curators, specialists, various sensei, practitioners etc.

·    Podcasts services and short videos are planned, and will be available only to paid subscribers.   

Because of my 30+ years in Japan, and my research and work in the media (radio, television, press), I have many contacts in the academic world that I can turn to, to help answer questions and prepare better, informative, interesting and timely articles.

I hope you will enjoy discovering the samurai, their history and culture, the many battles, bouts, the characters, places and times, all facets of this fascinating topic, and that you too will be part of the community.