Samurai Baby Names & Cop Tactics

October 23, 2017 9:06 PM

Lots of rules about samurai behavior, tips, and names. As usual with such old books, the author and the dates are debatable, but it has lots of interesting tidbits about samurai education, behavior, and even what to name your baby samurai. The second translation is of a tactical manual for policemen in the late 1880s. Samurai Secrets. One basic necessity, for instance, is rope for tying guys up, and if you don't have rope, paper-wrapped twine will do.
posted by MovableBookLady (8 comments total)

That stock photo of a white guy mishandling a katana is killing me.
posted by agentofselection at 9:19 PM on October 23, 2017 [4 favorites]

Oh yeah. Just try to avert your eyes; I do. And I can't see how he's even going to be able to draw the katana fully. Sigh.
posted by MovableBookLady at 9:26 PM on October 23, 2017 [1 favorite]

Help I looked at the stock photo and it was so bad that I died
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:08 AM on October 24, 2017 [3 favorites]

Doctor Fedora, you died a noble death - may stock photoists everywhere cover their lenses.
posted by lometogo at 3:46 AM on October 24, 2017 [3 favorites]

This would be better training than the paramilitary bullshit the St Louis cops are getting. Just don't let Riot King have a sword. Give him the paper string instead.
posted by Foosnark at 5:12 AM on October 24, 2017

Someone should update this book to include songs on the care of fedoras and fingerless gloves.
posted by vorpal bunny at 5:58 AM on October 24, 2017 [1 favorite]

Maybe it's a tachi and the caption is wrong.

(Haha just kidding.)
posted by tobascodagama at 8:53 AM on October 24, 2017

i somehow don't trust this dude's weeb translation of "samurai cop secrets" but that top hat picture is p sweet
posted by nixon's meatloaf at 11:22 AM on October 24, 2017