'The Wandering Samurai' is an adventure novel convincingly set in the Japan of the start of the seventeenth century, an era when everything is changing, from the system of government established by the Tokugawa following the unification of the country to the function and the raison d’être of the samurai class, which is now subject to the bureaucracy and increasing power of a new class, the chōnin. Japan needs fewer and fewer warriors and more and more businessmen. An exciting story that will delight all kinds of reader, from the most demanding fans of historical novels and adventure stories to the most faithful dedicatees of Japan at its most mystical and traditional, with its folklore, magic and mysteries.