Reddit reviews Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa.

It is historical fiction; an astonishingly complete and well-researched look at the Machiavellian cunning of a man who rose from impoverished youngster to supreme dominant warlord of all Japan.

Superb writing.

Merry Christmas.

Regards,

Ivan

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You have to watch Time Commanders. It is a weird British game show where random people attempt to win famous battles in a video game then hear about how they actually went down in real life - it is totally ridiculous and hokey, but sometimes it is great. My favorite one is the Battle of Gaugamela.

For books, Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa fits the bill. It is a fictionalized version of the most famous era of feudal Japan, the Nobunaga ascension, when Japan was in flux like China during Kingdom. It is not heavy on tactical warfare as much as on the state-building aspects and tricky sieges, things like that.

I recommend you read Taiko

Edit:Musashi is my favorite novel of all time btw. The idea of living your life dedicated to one idea or skill or trade yet still exploring a life of diversity all vectored towards that one thing you've set your life towards. It's genuinely inspiring.

After getting results for Japanese Drums and restaurants, are you referring to this
novel?

I have a love/hate relationship with the book Shogun. You will learn some things from it, but you will not know fact from fiction until readying something that is not so loosely based on history.

For historical fiction, I really liked:

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan https://www.amazon.com/dp/1568364288/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_PpFMxb63H4CC5

It still has the same issue of being fiction, but Shogun is just silly in comparison.