Oleg Benesch
Historian and author of Inventing the Way of the Samurai
Oleg Benesch (Historian and author of Inventing the Way of the Samurai) is discussed on podcasts in TMT.
Discussed in
658. Dawn of the Samurai: The Shadow of the Sword (Part 1)The Rest Is History · Apr 5, 2026 · 1 h 3 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the origins of Japan's samurai, from the Tokugawa shogunate and the Bushido myth back to the 10th-century warlord Taira no Masakado.