Icchouittan

After the epic adventure of <I>Genkaku</I> the martial code of conduct <I>Touhkondo</I> and the tale of <I>The Highstrung Koto</I> the author has now brings you a collection of twenty original short stories for your enjoyment.</p>Each story in this collection is set during the Edo period of pre-modern Japan when lords and their samurai ruled most of the countryside. Many warriors who were not in service lived in isolation writing stories which carried within them a unique lesson and clarification from a time when Japanese nobility lived in accordance to Bunbu Itchi or Pen and Sword in Accord.</p>Told in an age-old tradition along with illustrations done exclusively for each story this book offers a unique insight into the understanding culture lives and ways of the warriors who followed the old way of Japan. Every story carries within it a moral lesson depicted by characters or events that either exemplify a great virtue or vice.