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We are joined by celebrated expert and author of Japanese budo and culture, William Scott Wilson, translator of the Book of Five Rings and the Hagakure. He is traveling by foot along the famous Nakasendo Trail and often called the Samurai Highway. This road once connected Edo (present-day Tokyo) with Kyoto during the Edo period and was used by Samurai and their Lords or Daimyo. The Nakasendo was a valuable asset for the Tokugawa Shogunate. By placing barriers along this valuable route with Samurai guards, the Shogun could control who passed between these major towns and their lords castles.

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