- Toei Studios-The Brickster's Studio of choice!
- Edo Wonderland-another cool 'movie village', with lots of displays, exhibits, and performances!
- The Samurai Archives-only the best place on the Web fer gettin' yer samurai history in the West!
- Patrick Galloway-author of the great samurai film book Stray Dogs And Lone Wolves, and the excellent Asian horror film book Asia Shock!
- Lian Hearn-author of the Tales of The Otori series, one of the Brickster's new faves (although I stumble over some of them big words)
- Ronald At The Lucky Star-Ronald McDonald and chipmunky schoolgirls-what could be better?
- Metal Samurai-another show featurin' a westerner in the samurai era
- GMAN-lifesavin' page for settin' up yer computer to input Japanese!
- Japanese Historical Manuscript/Book Locater-this Japanese language site will track down copies of most early Japanese manuscripts and books, and also let you know where they've been reprinted
- List Of Classical Japanese Works In Translation-a list of English translations of war tales, Noh tales, dramas, and other classical Japanese works
- Mongol Invasion Scrolls-Thomas Conlan's Excellent comparative site of 4 versions of this 13th century depiction of the scrolls Takezaki Suenaga had made to depict his role in the Mongol Invasions of Japan
- Heiji Disturbance Scroll-Conlan's follow up to the above, this time featurin' the Heiji Disturbance (the forerunner to the Genpei War)
- Heike Monogatari-podcast site for the classic work of the Genpei War!
- Azuma Kagami-a modern Japanese translation of this important Kamakura era text!
- Japanese Historical Figures Dictionary-great for ID'in those obscure samurai!
- Kanji Database-White Knight Logic's excellent all purpose kanji site, especially helpful for place and proper names
- Kanji Translator-for those who don't have a clue what I'm talkin' about!
- Japanese Kanji Dictionary-another handy little site!
- Online Glossary of Japanese Historic Terms-the Japan Memory Project Online's excellent compilation of...err, Japanese historic terms!
- Japanese Court Ranks & Titles-who's a kami and who's a sho?
- Buke Densou-list of Imperial Court Samurai Intermediaries
- Edo-cool CG site that recreates much of old Edo, with links to other Edo period sites
- Tokugawa Three Generations Cast List-well, this is here since I'm watchin' it and it's handy to grab kanji names when I want to know who one of the characters was.
- Professor T's Online Journal: The Way Of The Worrier-samurai author Stephen Turnbull's blog, which is more intrestin' than many of his books!
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