Samurai Death Cult: The Dark Side of Bushido |
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| Authors: | Cummins, Antony |
| Publisher: | Watkins Media |
| BISAC/Subject: | HIS027000, HIS021000, HIS027060 |
| ISBN: | 9781914420726, Related ISBNs: 1914420470, 1914420721, 9781914420474, 9781914420726 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 1, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: The samurai may not be what they seem. Explore the dark and sinister side of samurai warrior culture, from death cults to head worship and from human sacrifice to slavery and barbarity.
The samurai — a noble warrior fighting for truth? Or a frenzied headhunter seeking his next gruesome trophy? Both images appear in the popular imagination in the West, but are never reconciled. Why is this?
In Samurai Death Cult, samurai expert Antony Cummins takes you down the shadowy avenues of samurai history, unleashing the horror of what it was like to be a warrior in feudal Japan and exposing the reality of what it meant to be young, bored and given a sword.
The samurai were Japan’s child soldiers, brought up in a position of power, elevated to the status of man, warrior and leader before they were even halfway though their teens. They were taught decapitation, ritual disembowelment, esoteric magic, animal sacrifice, murder, assassination, political intrigue and in many cases were subject to intensive indoctrination.
But if this is true, then where then does the predominantly Western image of the samurai as a trusty and nobble warrior come from? And how can these two reflections of the world’s most famous warrior be accurate?
Enter if you dare and discover the true way of the samurai.
The samurai — a noble warrior fighting for truth? Or a frenzied headhunter seeking his next gruesome trophy? Both images appear in the popular imagination in the West, but are never reconciled. Why is this?
In Samurai Death Cult, samurai expert Antony Cummins takes you down the shadowy avenues of samurai history, unleashing the horror of what it was like to be a warrior in feudal Japan and exposing the reality of what it meant to be young, bored and given a sword.
The samurai were Japan’s child soldiers, brought up in a position of power, elevated to the status of man, warrior and leader before they were even halfway though their teens. They were taught decapitation, ritual disembowelment, esoteric magic, animal sacrifice, murder, assassination, political intrigue and in many cases were subject to intensive indoctrination.
But if this is true, then where then does the predominantly Western image of the samurai as a trusty and nobble warrior come from? And how can these two reflections of the world’s most famous warrior be accurate?
Enter if you dare and discover the true way of the samurai.
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