Welcome to my Blog. I will be discussing Eiko Ikegami’s book The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan. Published in 1995, Ikegami looks into Samurai culture through a sociological lens, giving a unique angle that she claims is new in the study of Japanese history. In each post I will be analysing and critiquing a specific topic or chapter, and connecting it back to Ikegami’s main idea or thesis.