someone fuck me up with good samurai novels

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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

>>7324948
what film is that, OP ? sorry if not /lit/

>>7325025
Kurosawa did a good rashomon. Giving it a read would be pretty cool.

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This no doubt. Not samurai proper, but it's set during the war that turned aristocrats into samurai. It's also a great introduction to Zen if you're interested in that.

Is the last Samurai by Helen DeWitt worth reading?

>>7325145
>Helen Dewitt
sounds like a white woman, so probably not

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Pic related is essential samurai core.

If you're also interested in non-fiction you should read Hagakure. It's advertised as some kind of manual on how to become an OG samurai, but it's filled with stories of samurai being crazy niggers, killing others and themselves willy nilly.
Also some cool anecdotes on accepting death.

>>7324948
Anything by James Clavell. Shogun and Gaijin are my favorites tho

Shogun is great. Big doorstopper

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Chushingura

>>7325120
The movie is based on a different Akutagawa story though just so you know. I can't remember which one off the top of my head though.

>>7325248

Essential read. Anything that Japs write about their own culture turns into unreadable mess. Essentially the same as with westerns and us authors.