Usagi Yojimbo Saga Volume 4 (Second Edition) - by Stan Sakai (Paperback)

About the Book

"Miyamoto Usagi's past looms over this fourth volume of Dark Horse's definitive Usagi Yojimbo compilations. First, the rabbit ronin attends a duel between his former teacher Katsuichi and a rival, and he is drawn into a dispute involving a local fencing school. Usagi enjoys a reprieve from his solitary wandering when young Jotaro joins him in his travels--but struggles with the secret knowledge that Jotaro is his son.--Back cover.

Book Synopsis

New challenges await the rabbit ronin in the fourth volume of this enduring saga, featuring new original cover art by Stan Sakai!

Miyamoto Usagi's past returns as he fights alongside his former teacher and struggles with the knowledge that his traveling companion Jotaro is his son! The Neko ninja and fan-favorite character Sasuké the Demon Queller reappear, and a manga classic is paid tribute in Lone Goat and Kid!

Collects Usagi Yojimbo Volume Three #53-#75, a color cover gallery, and the color short story "A Lesson in Courtesy."

Review Quotes

"Sixteenth-century Japan is never so entertaining as in Stan Sakai's tales of Miyamoto Usagi."--NPR's Best Books of 2014

"Stan Sakai has successfully brought to American comics a collection of Japanese fables well told in the American style. Usagi Yojimbo is an enduring work. Bravo."--Will Eisner

"I think Usagi Yojimbo is one of the most original, innovative, well-executed comic books anywhere to be found. Stan's style of artwork, his crisp incisive writing, and his thoroughly professional pacing, all done in a relaxed and absorbed manner, have provided comics with something so rarely seen in this field--a new literary and artistic approach to illustrated storytelling."--Stan Lee

"Sakai is a total pro and a consummate craftsman."--Rolling Stone

About the Author

Stan Sakai was born in Kyoto, Japan, grew up in Hawaii, and now lives in California with his children, Hannah and Matthew. He received a fine arts degree from the University of Hawaii and did further studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His creation, Usagi Yojimbo, is the story of a samurai rabbit living in a feudal Japan populated by anthropomorphic animals. It first appeared in Albedo Comics in 1984. Since then, Usagi has appeared on television as a guest of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; and as toys, on clothing, in comic books, and in a series of trade paperback collections. In 1991, Stan created Space Usagi, the adventures of a descendant of the original Usagi, dealing with the samurai in a futuristic setting. Stan is also an award-winning letterer for his work on Sergio Aragonés's Groo: The Wanderer, the Spider-Man Sunday newspaper strips, as well as for Usagi Yojimbo. He is the recipient of a Parents' Choice Award, an Inkpot Award, multiple Eisner Awards, two Spanish Haxturs, an American Library Association Award, and a National Cartoonists' Society Division Award. Usagi Yojimbo Book 12: Grasscutter was used as a textbook in Japanese history classes at the University of Portland.