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Sakuma Morishige drinking the blood of his enemy! Sakuma Morishige was an important samurai under Oda Nobunaga, and is mentioned in the Shincho-Koki, the Chronicles of Lord Nobunaga. Prior to the Battle of Okehazama in 1560, Morishige was appointed castellan of Marune Castle, (now in Nagoya...

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Su Yuanchun (1844-1908 AD) A tough illiterate man, Su Yuanchun was one of the last great Qing warriors. He distinguished himself in the field and made it from a simple soldier to a distinguished general in a time when the Qing fought battles against modern firearms with sabers, spears, bows...

A samurai and his retainers wearing mail armor and armed with naginata, 1870.