Gripping London samurai exhibition explores Japan’s warrior class and cuts through myths

Gripping London samurai exhibition explores Japan’s warrior class and cuts through myths


You could be forgiven for thinking that the UK has gone samurai mad of late.

Director Michihito Fujii’s Last Samurai Standing remains high up the Netflix UK chart, Penguin Books is enjoying a massive bestseller in Shotaro Ikenami’s multi-volume The Samurai Detectives, and the FX miniseries retelling of James Clavell’s Shogun (originally a 1975 novel) was a surprise hit and won various awards.



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