not quite ancient, but adding on to suggest Musui’s Story, the puffed-up autobio of a larger than life 19th century samurai that i found laugh-out-loud funny. m

not quite ancient, but adding on to suggest Musui’s Story, the puffed-up autobio of a larger than life 19th century samurai that i found laugh-out-loud funny. my most distinctive memory is him bragging about threatening suicide in front of the peasants in his village to extort more grain from them and how clever that was; or when he made fun of his nephews for failing to prevent the murder of his brother; or bragging about scamming money from nearly everyone in his life. I know that sounds dark but it’s probably mostly a pile of lies anyway.