Manga can be elegant and artistic, but it also serves up raunch, romance and violence. "Hagakure: The Code of the Samurai, The Manga Edition" offers all this and more.
The manga is based on "Hagakure: Book of the Samurai," which was translated into English in 1979 by William Scott Wilson, and quickly became a big hit with martial arts enthusiasts, Japanese history buffs and fans of the sword-wielding warriors of yore.
The original "Hagakure" is an encyclopedic collection of more than a thousand entries, instructions and anecdotes of samurai life that was written in the early 1700s by a samurai retainer named Yamamoto Tsunetomo.