The thrilling conclusion! Jyûbei faces his final foe. Will he strike vengeance at last? Just as Yagyû Jyûbei escapes imprisonment in the Snow Hell, the surviving women of the Hori clan are captured! Each passing hour brings the Hori women's execution that much closer, but it also brings Oyura's heart closer to that of her sworn enemy, Yagyû Jyûbei. Have the Hori clan's hopes for revenge vanished like the morning mists? Faced with insurmountable odds, what will Jyûbei do?
After the Aizu Kato men imprison and humiliate the Hori men and their elite Seven Spears murder all but seven of the Hori wormen, the surviving Hori women vow to avenge their imprisoned and dead by murdering the Seven Spears in a most ...
After the Aizu Kato men imprison and humiliate the Hori men and their elite Seven Spears murder all but seven of the Hori wormen, the surviving Hori women vow to avenge their imprisoned and dead by murdering the Seven Spears in a most ...
OF BLOOD AND DESTINY The titanic battle between the clans rages on. Akeginu and the blinded Oboro of the Iga clan encounter a powerful aristocrat named Ofuku, who will...
Two rival ninja clans are picked to fight to the death to resolve a clash over the succession to the Japanese throne, but things get complicated when the son of one clan and the daughter of the other unexpectedly fall in love.
His prayer was thus: “Please afford me success in war.” He kept to this routine all through his life.’ Through patient and scholarly detective work, Antony Cummins and the Historical Ninjutsu Research Team have unearthed a Shinobi ...
What do we really know about the historical shinobi, his tactics, and his role in medieval Japanese society? In The Secret Traditions of the Shinobi, these questions—and many more—are answered.
This is the first English translation of this remarkable poet, collecting poems from seven earlier books as well as from her recent work.
Every death brings these two star-crossed lovers closer to confronting each other on the battlefield at last! From the Trade Paperback edition.
He exposes the essentially brutal nature of warfare in medieval Japan. This book is illuminated by many rare Japanese manuscripts and texts which are translated into English for the very first time.
This epic manga series won Japan's Media Arts Award, several British Eagle Awards, and an Eisner Award, among other international accolades.