I first heard Tomoyasu Hotei's Save Me at the end of #SamuraiFiction, a 1998-ish samurai movie. The moon slowly rising above the trees to the song is still my favourite version of it. SF has an amazing soundtrack by Hotei, who also appears in the movie.

This isn't the movie credits version, despite the moon. There's a slower build up to when the guitar (& the song) explodes, 2 minutes in here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seqANGnCLZ4

#Hotei #TomoyasuHotei #HoteiTomoyasu

Researching female Japanese castle servants for #samuraipunk #samuraifiction #scifi. https://www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/title/Otoshiyori.html

#WIP #samuraipunk #samuraifiction
Editing chapter two of The Daimyo's Double. Hoping to have this at about 30 - 40K by summer. Release when ready.

600 rough words tonight. Off to a good start on the scene. #wip #samuraipunk #samuraifiction

Help Wanted: Character Name

Need a female name for a "servant" woman serving in the daimyo's castle. She helps the protagonist, Shima.
#SamuraiFiction

"The RuiNin"
The ruined state of both his cybernetics and his life marked him as more than just "masterless" – he was ruiNin – an Augmented samurai wandering the wastelands, unable to end his existence lest the dead haunt him even in the afterlife.
https://vocal.media/fiction/the-rui-nin
#SamuraiPunk #samurai #SamuraiFiction #SamuraiSFF #fiction #scifi