<p>1606. The city of Kyoto becomes the center of attention when a samurai sets up a peculiar record: making fifty arrows pass through the gallery of a temple. As the record is beaten again and again by talented archers and this challenge becomes the event

<p>This is the Edo-era samurai guts. Controversial, tough, angry, highly skilled and lost in a time of peace, the characters of Satsuma Gishiden tell a quasi-historical tale of social caste and brutal reprisal.Readers with a taste for Kazuo Koikes gritty