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  2. Category:Fictional samurai - Wikipedia

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  3. Category:Samurai fiction - Wikipedia

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    Fiction about samurai, soldiers who served as retainers to lords (including daimyo) in Feudal Japan. Samurai existed from the late 12th century until their abolition in the late 1870s during the Meiji era .

  4. List of fictional nobility - Wikipedia

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    A fictional samurai loosely based on the real historical figure Date Masamune. Jack Fletcher Young Samurai: An English boy shipwrecked in Japan who eventually becomes a samurai. Gintoki Sakata: Gin Tama: A samurai who works as a freelancer. Haohmaru: Samurai Shodown: A fictional rōnin based on the real historical figure Miyamoto Musashi ...

  5. Samurai Fiction - Wikipedia

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    Samurai Fiction (SF サムライ・フィクション, Esu Efu Samurai Fikushon) is a 1998 comedy-samurai film directed by Hiroyuki Nakano.It is almost entirely black-and-white, and follows a fairly standard plotline for a comedy and jidaigeki samurai film, but the presence of Tomoyasu Hotei's rock-and-roll soundtrack separates it from the films it was inspired by, such as the works of Akira ...

  6. Miyamoto Musashi in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The comic book Usagi Yojimbo stars a rabbit samurai inspired by Musashi. [5] In Steve Perry's Matador book series and novel The Musashi Flex, the "Musashi Flex" is an illegal underground martial arts competition named after Musashi. Musashi was the subject of Sword of the Samurai, a book in the Time Machine series by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry.

  7. Category:Swordfighters in Japanese fiction - Wikipedia

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    Fictional samurai (1 C, 53 P, 1 F) U. Usagi Yojimbo (19 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Swordfighters in Japanese fiction" The following 37 pages are in this category, out ...

  8. Japanese swords in fiction - Wikipedia

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    It is the prime weapon of choice for Japanese heroes in historical fiction set before the Meiji period. Carrying a non-sealed katana is illegal in present-day Japan, but in fiction this law is often ignored or circumvented to allow characters to carry katana as a matter of artistic license. For instance, some stories state that carrying weapons ...

  9. Zatoichi - Wikipedia

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    Zatoichi (Japanese: 座頭市, Hepburn: Zatōichi) is a fictional character created by Japanese novelist Kan Shimozawa. He is an itinerant blind masseur and swordsman of Japan's late Edo period (1830s and 1840s).