Samurai, will never be the last!

TITLE: SAMURAI 1550-1600
AUTHOR: ANTHONY J. BRYANT
PUBLISHER: OSPREY PUBLISHING LTD.
ISBN: 978-979-91-0110-5

I really like to read about culture, as much as martial arts or the art of war. So I really interested to read about Samurai.

The author opened the book with the history and introduction of what is meant by the samurai. Samurai (or also known as Bushi) is a group of Japanese military nobility. They experienced its heyday in the inter-war period the country (or in Japanese is called Sengoku Jidai) which took place in the 1550-1600 period. At the time it was a time when defections, betrayals, and the seizure of power in society (though sometimes a lot of unexpected solidarity occurred in this period).

The rest of book give the detailed explanations about what happened at that time, the law and the rules that apply to the samurai, the life of that period, accompanied by photos and illustrations on the clothes and armor of the samurai.

This is interesting part. We can adopt some of samurai code to our life. Sometimes their codes sounds too extreme (I still can't accept harakiri or suicide), but there are another that we can follow it. 

This book wasn't too heavy nor big. But I'm very impressed that it gave detailed explanations about Samurai.