participate too after applying. It is one of the biggest historical reenactments in Japan. In 2012 Guinness World Records certified it as the "largest gathering of samurai" in the world with 1,061 participants. Famous samurai These are some famous samurai with extraordinary achievements in history. Akechi Mitsuhide Amakusa Shirō Date Masamune Hasekura Tsunenaga Hattori Hanzō Hōjō Ujimasa Honda Tadakatsu Kusunoki Masashige Minamoto no Yoshitsune Minamoto no Yoshiie Miyamoto Musashi Nakano Takeko Oda Nobunaga Saigō Takamori Saitō Hajime Sakamoto Ryōma Sanada Yukimura Sasaki Kojirō Shimazu Takahisa Shimazu Yoshihiro Takayama Ukon Takeda Shingen Tokugawa Ieyasu William Adams Toyotomi Hideyoshi Uesugi Kenshin Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi Yagyū Munenori Yamamoto Tsunetomo Yamaoka Tesshū Samurai museums Matsumoto Castle – the second floor features a collection of feudal guns, armor, and other weapons. Japanese Sword Museum – dedicated to the art of Japanese swordmaking. Samurai Museum in Shinjuku, Tokyo – about the history of the samurai with armor, weapons etc. Ōyamazumi Shrine in Ōmishima Island – large collection of ancient samurai weaponry, armor and shrine statuary. See also Kendo List of Japanese battles List of samurai Lone Wolf and Cub Musha shugyō Ninja Pechin Kabukimono Seiwa Genji Shudō Shi Hwarang Kheshig References Bibliography Absolon, Trevor. Samurai Armour: Volume I: The Japanese Cuirass (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017). Anderson, Patricia E. "Roles of Samurai Women: Social Norms and Inner Conflicts During Japan's Tokugawa Period, 1603–1868". New Views on Gender 15 (2015): 30–37. online Ansart, Olivier. "Lust, Commerce and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard by an Edo Samurai". Asian Studies Review 39.3 (2015): 529–530. Benesch, Oleg. Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan (Oxford UP, 2014). Benesch, Oleg. "Comparing Warrior Traditions: How the Janissaries and Samurai Maintained Their Status and Privileges During Centuries of Peace." Comparative Civilizations Review 55.55 (2006): 6:37–55 Online. Clements, Jonathan. A Brief History of the Samurai (Running Press, 2010) Cummins, Antony, and Mieko Koizumi. The Lost Samurai School (North Atlantic Books, 2016) 17th century Samurai textbook on combat; heavily illustrated. Hubbard, Ben. The Samurai Warrior: The Golden Age of Japan's Elite Warriors 1560–1615 (Amber Books, 2015). Jaundrill, D. Colin. Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Cornell UP, 2016). Kinmonth, Earl H. Self-Made Man in Meiji Japanese Thought: From Samurai to Salary Man (1981) 385pp. Ogata, Ken. "End of the Samurai: A Study of Deinstitutionalization Processes". Academy of Management Proceedings Vol. 2015. No. 1.