Samurai: The Japanese Warrior's Unofficial Manual
Author: Stephen Turnbull
Author: Stephen Turnbull
Rarely, you would think headhunter, suicide, torture, anti-Christian, protocol and racisim. Unfortunately, that's what a real samurai mostly, is.
Stephen Turnbull takes a fictional persona of Umawatari Bogyu, explaining the details of a samurai's lifestyle and code of conduct.
Detailed here includes expectation of respect from the lower class (that means everyone else besides the royalty and aristocrats), methods of torture, doing business with different nationality, suicide methods, preparation for death, dress code and some little bit on strategy and also art of war.
Honestly, I was very surprised. I thought if you were writing a manual about warrior class, there would be more information on art of war and strategy.
Here are somethings that is just so wrong.
Let's get rid of the Christians.
In today's day and age, this is what we would call hate crime.
Feudal Japan believed that Christianity would usurp power from the ruling class.
Although they allow foreigners in, Christianity is absolutely not tolerated.
Samurais also have code of how to handle foreigners.
There seems to be utmost prejudice to the Koreans.
Handy ways to torture for information extraction.
We know today. people who are tortured just say anything to stop the pain they are in.
In conclusion, I am not sure how to rate this book except read at your own caution.
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