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Author
Series
Young samurai volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
8) Sam Samurai
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 10
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
85 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the period between the 16th and 19th centuries in Japan by examining the lives of shoguns, samurais, geishas, and the very few westerners allowed into Japan. Japan was then a world unto itself, closed to outsiders, and ruled by shoguns with absolute control. During this period, Japan transitioned from chaos and violence to a land of ritual refinement and peace.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Description
Musashi is a brash and ambitious peasant who desires frame and power as a swordsman. His dreams of glory in war sour when his army is routed and he becomes hunted by the authorities. With the help of a severe monk, he develops from a hot-tempered into a thoughtful swordsman.
12) Usagi Yojimbo
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
v. <8-19> : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
13) Musashi
Author
Publisher
La Otra H
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
174 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Miyamoto Musashi ha pasado a la historia como una figura emblemática. Este samurái, el más famoso del viejo Japón, representa aspectos clave del espíritu bushido del país del sol naciente. Participó en algunas batallas fundamentales de su época que sirvieron para instaurar el dominio Tokugawa y anunciaron el prolongado periodo Edo. Desarrolló, además, magníficas habilidades para la poesía, la caligrafía, la pintura, la ceremonia del té,...
14) Smoke in the sun
Author
Series
Flame in the mist volume 2
Formats
Description
"Mariko must uncover deception in the imperial court and rescue Okami, while preparing for her nuptials"--
15) Vagabond
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
v. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Formats
Description
"Real-life figure Miyamoto Musashi was the most celebrated samurai of all time. The quintessential warrior philosopher, Musashi authored 'A book of five rings, ' a theoretical guide to military strategy still used today. But the path to enlightement in feudal era Japan was fraught with peril. At seventeen years of age, Musashi-- still known by his childhood name, Shinmen Takezō-- was a wild young brute just setting out along the way of the sword....
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Worshiping his absent warrior father and urged by the Buddhist monk uncle who raised him to embrace a peaceful life in turbulent late sixteenth-century Japan, Bennosuke confronts painful family truths before pursuing the life of a samurai.
17) Shogun
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (547 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Blackthorne is a ship-wrecked English navigator who becomes both an observer and a participant in historic changes in Japan during the Tokugawa, or, Edo period. Toranaga is a feuding warlord vying to become the supreme military dictator, or sho?gun. Blackthorne is drawn into the turmoil and becomes determined to be the first foreigner to become a samurai warrior.
Author
Series
Magic tree house series.Merlin missions volume 8-9
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 CDS (2 hrs. 34 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dragon of the red dawn: When Merlin is weighed down by sorrows, the enchantress Morgan asks Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, to use their tree house to travel to a land of fierce samurai and great beauty, in the capital city of Edo (now the city of Tokyo) in old Japan in the 1600s to learn one of the four secrets of happiness.
Blizzard of the blue moon: Jack and Annie go back in time to New York City, during one of the darkest periods...
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