During the Edo period of peace the samurai looked back and reflected on the Sengoku period in a romanticised way. However, some documentation of the Edo period intended to save the military knowledge for future generations is an invaluable historical source. Apart from a very select few manuals t...
* These have been published in The Secret Traditions of the Shinobi. † Unknown material, possibly a skull. ‡ Called the koganemushi in modern day Japan, the name kuso-mushi was used in the text, translates as “excrement insect” and is a relation to ...