The Kouga Ninja Scrolls

Author : Futaro Yamada
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345495105

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The Kouga Ninja Scrolls by Futaro Yamada Pdf

An epic novel that takes you deeper into the world and history of Basilisk! To resolve a clash over succession, the shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa has devised the ultimate contest. Two rival ninja clans, the Kouga and the Iga, will meet in a battle to the death. The victor will rule Japan for the next thousand years. But in the midst of this bloody war, an unlikely romance blooms between Gennosuke of the Kouga clan and Oboro of the Iga clan. Gennosuke and Oboro are the next leaders of their clans and their fates are inextricably bound with that of their families. In the colossal fight, the star-crossed lovers are faced with a fatal choice between true love and destiny. Can romance conquer a four-hundred-year-old rivalry? Or is their love fated to end in death?

Author : Masaki Segawa,Fūtarō Yamada
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-27
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131922804

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Basilisk 4 by Masaki Segawa,Fūtarō Yamada Pdf

OF BLOOD AND DESTINY The titanic battle between the clans rages on. Akeginu and the blinded Oboro of the Iga clan encounter a powerful aristocrat named Ofuku, who will do whatever it takes to make her godson, Takechiyo, the next Shogun. If Ofuku and her troops join forces with the Iga, will the Kouga still have a chance at victory? Meanwhile, the Kouga leader Gennosuke, also blinded, and his comrades–including the shapeshifter Saemon and the deadly seductress Kagerou–embark on a long journey to Sunpu to find out exactly why the truce was dissolved. They will face the fury of the calculating Tenzen and the whirlwind-wielding Koshirou. In the end, who will survive this bloody game of deception and politics?

Author : Antony Cummins,Yoshie Minami
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752497327

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Iga and Koka Ninja Skills by Antony Cummins,Yoshie Minami Pdf

'A retainer of our domain, Renpeido Chikamatsu Hikonoshin Shigenori, each morning washed his face and hands, dressed himself in Hakama and prayed in front of the kamidana alter ... His prayer was thus: "Please afford me success in war." He kept to this routine all through his life.' Through patient and scholarly detective work, Antony Cummins and the Historical Ninjutsu Research Team have unearthed a Shinobi treasure. The 18th-century military historian Chikamatsu recorded the oral traditions of the Ninja and passed on those skills in lectures he gave at his Renpeido school of war in Owari domain during the early 1700s. Chikamatsu wrote specifically about the Shinobi of Iga and Koka, regions from which warriors were hired all over the land in the days of war. The lost scrolls are filled with unknown Shinobi teachings, skills that include infiltration, assassination, explosives, magic and commando tactics, including an in depth commentary on Sun Tzu's famous 13th chapter, 'The Use of Spies'.

Author : Masaki Segawa,Futaro Yamada
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131922812

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Basilisk 5 by Masaki Segawa,Futaro Yamada Pdf

THE FINAL SHOWDOWN With only three ninja remaining on each side, the battle between the Iga and the Kouga clans is nearing its bloody end. Believing he has slain Yakushiji Tenzen, shape-shifter Saemon Kisaragi morphs into Tenzen’s body and infiltrates Iga territory. But what Saemon doesn’t know is that Tnezen is an immortal ninja, and that he has his own plan to dispose of Saemon and the Kouga clan. Meanwhile, Oboro, leader of the Iga clan, has sworn that she will die rather than fight against her lover, Gennosuke. Every death brings these two star-crossed lovers closer to confronting each other on the battlefield at last!

Author : Futaro Yamada
Publisher : Kodansha Comics
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781612627076

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Basilisk by Futaro Yamada Pdf

THE FINAL SHOWDOWN With only three ninja remaining on each side, the battle between the Iga and the Kouga clans is nearing its bloody end. Believing he has slain Yakushiji Tenzen, shape-shifter Saemon Kisaragi morphs into Tenzen’s body and infiltrates Iga territory. But what Saemon doesn’t know is that Tnezen is an immortal ninja, and that he has his own plan to dispose of Saemon and the Kouga clan. Meanwhile, Oboro, leader of the Iga clan, has sworn that she will die rather than fight against her lover, Gennosuke. Every death brings these two star-crossed lovers closer to confronting each other on the battlefield at last! From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Masaki Segawa
Publisher : Tanoshimi
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 009950474X

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Basilisk by Masaki Segawa Pdf

"In an old Japan that never was, a war between two feuding ninja clans is about to begin. The ninja wield awesome and deadly supernatural powers, which will only make the battle all the more desperate. Ten champions from each clan will meet in a fight to the death - with the victor ruling Japan for the next thousand years. But when the son of one clan meets the daughter of the other, they fall in love. Will their forbidden love end the war or drive the clans into their next final battle?

Author : Masaki Segawa,Futaro Yamada
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123513991

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The Kouga Ninja Scrolls by Masaki Segawa,Futaro Yamada Pdf

Thanks to the machinations of the Ieyasu Tokugawa, the age-old truce between the Kouga and the Iga clans is no more–and now a fight to the death will decide which clan reigns supreme. Oboro has blinded herself in order to avoid having to kill Gennosuke, her lover and her rival. Meanwhile, Gennosuke has urged the Iga clan to join him on a journey to Sunpu to find out the real motives behind Ieyasu Tokugawa’s orders to fight. But the Iga has other plans. The hirsute Nenki and the butterfly-wielding Hotarubi rush to assassinate Gennosuke, while Tenzen has sinister intentions for a defenseless Oboro. The epic battle of blood and betrayal continues!

Author : Meelis Friedenthal
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782271741

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The Willow King by Meelis Friedenthal Pdf

A deeply engrossing, philosophical novel by a rising Estonian literary star. Wrapped into his long coat against the incessant rain and accompanied by a strange parrot, the young Dutch student Laurentius arrives in Estonia on an icy day at the end of the seventeenth century. On the run from a dark past and suspected of heresy, he has fled to Tartu, 'The City of the Muses', to study at the famous university. Laurentius has been searching obsessively for a cure for the mysterious melancholy which torments him, and is desperate to understand where the soul comes from, and how it relates to the body. But the more he searches, the more he is attracted to the world of instinct, superstition and magic of the peasants in the surrounding countryside. A world which he knew as a child, but which now persecutes him in dreams and visions which increasingly blur with reality. In this astonishingly atmospheric novel, Friedenthal enters the bowels of Shakespeare's century to tell the story of anguished modernity, and of the advent of the Age of Enlightenment - while medicine is still progressing on the lines of humours, fears and alchemy, and the dark North dreams of radient antiquity, of symposia in Mediterranean gardens among the sweet hum of the bees - the birds of the muses, the souls of poets.

Author : Hiroaki Samura
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781506701325

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Blade of the Immortal Omnibus Volume 2 by Hiroaki Samura Pdf

Rin continues her quest across feudal Japan to avenge the murder of her parents, joined by Manji--her seemingly immortal protector. The eccentric, bloodthirsty Ittö-ryü sword school tries to carve a path to Edo castle, led by the hated Anotsu as they obliterate all rival schools along the way. What they don't know, though, is that the deadly Mugai-ryü has formed--with the sole purpose of destroying Anotsu's clan! This epic manga series won Japan's Media Arts Award, several British Eagle Awards, and an Eisner Award, among other international accolades. Relentless and shocking, Blade takes Edo-era samurai action and combines it with modernist street idioms to create a style and mood like no other work of graphic fiction. "Samura's work will thrill you, engage you, and even horrify you like no other artist working in film or print today." --Geof Darrow (Shaolin Cowboy, Hard Boiled)

Author : 風太郎·山田
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2006050001

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The Kouga Ninja Scrolls by 風太郎·山田 Pdf

Author : Masaki Segawa,Futaro Yamada
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123513983

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Basilisk by Masaki Segawa,Futaro Yamada Pdf

LOVE AND DEATH The bloody battle to rule Japan has begun: The Iga and the Kouga clans are locked in a fight to the death. Driven by a centuries-old hatred, each clan will do anything to annihilate the other. The Kouga clan is engaging in a little espionage, and has planted a shapeshifter, disguised as an Iga ninja, in the Iga palace. Meanwhile the Iga clan turns to its last, best hope: their new leader, Gennosuke, the only one who can defeat the Kouga’s formidable leader, Oboro. But is she willing to kill the man she loves? As the war grows more desperate, will true love be the next casualty? Includes in-depth translation notes and a preview of the next volume!

Author : NISIOISIN
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781646599424

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OWARIMONOGATARI, Part 3 by NISIOISIN Pdf

During his third year in high school, Koyomi Araragi is introduced to a transfer student named Ougi Oshino Ougi tells Koyomi that there is something odd about Naoestu High School… a secret room on thats not on the map. What will Koyomi and Ougi find in this hidden room?

Author : Antony Cummins,Yoshie Minami
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781583945193

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The Secret Traditions of the Shinobi by Antony Cummins,Yoshie Minami Pdf

The shinobi, or ninja, is one of the most widely recognized figures in the world of espionage—and also one of the most misrepresented. What do we really know about the historical shinobi, his tactics, and his role in medieval Japanese society? In Secret Traditions of the Shinobi, these questions—and many more—are answered. Translated into English for the very first time, this widely sought-after collection of historical documents brings to light the secret practices, techniques, philosophies, and lifestyles of the shinobi. Included are: • the Shinobi Hiden, or "Secret Ninja Tradition," a documentation of techniques commonly attributed to one of the best-known ninja masters, Hattori Hanzo; • the Koka Ryu Ninjutsu Densho, a small but important work from the Edo period that reveals the realm of ninja magic and spells; • the three shinobi scrolls of the Gunpo Jiyoshu, a manual enthusiastically promoted by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa shogun of Japan; • one hundred poems written between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries—making them the oldest collection of written ninjutsu information in the world; and • seventy historical black-and-white illustrations depicting ninja tools and weapons. Secret Traditions of the Shinobi will enthrall martial artists eager to learn the real skills of the shinobi, as well as anyone interested in this exciting period of Japanese history and espionage. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Futaro Yamada,Masaki Segawa
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Ninja
ISBN : 0345482700

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Basilisk 1 by Futaro Yamada,Masaki Segawa Pdf

THE BATTLE BEGINS The Iga clan and the Kouga clan have been sworn enemies for more than four hundred years. Only the Hanzo Hattori truce has kept the two families from all-out war. Now, under the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the truce has finally been dissolved. Ten ninja from each clan must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun. The surviving clan will rule for the next thousand years. But not all the clan members are in agreement. Oboro of the Iga clan and Gennosuke of the Kouga clan have fallen deeply in love. Now these star-crossed lovers have been pitted against each other. Can their romance conquer a centuries-old rivalry? Or is their love destined to end in death?

Author : Antony Cummins
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781462915064

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Samurai and Ninja by Antony Cummins Pdf

The myths of the noble Samurai and the sinister Ninja are filled with romantic fantasy and fallacy. Samurai and Ninja expert Antony Cummins shatters the myths and exposes the true nature of these very real—and very lethal—medieval Japanese warriors. The Samurai and Ninja were in fact brutal killing machines trained in torture and soaked in machismo. Many were skilled horsemen and sword-fighting specialists, while others were masters of deception and sabotage. Some fought for loyalty, others for personal gain. What these warriors all shared in common was their unflinching personal bravery, skill and brutality. In Samurai and Ninja, Cummins separates myth from reality and shows why the Japanese were the greatest warriors of all time: He describes the Samurai and the Ninja as they really were in earlier times when battles raged across Japan—not in later times when war became obsolete and Japanese warriors became philosophers, scholars and courtiers. He describes the social context of the day and the feudal world into which the warriors were trained to fight and die for their lords. He exposes the essentially brutal nature of warfare in medieval Japan. This book is illuminated by many rare Japanese manuscripts and texts which are translated into English for the very first time.