Tips, Guides, and/or Recomendations for Writing About Feudal Japan? I am deciding that I would like to do some research on my time period before I begin to write about it. My intention is to write a convincing piece of historical fiction set during the Sengoku Jidai.

I'm looking for anything that will help me convincingly represent the way that people lived and thought during this time period. I'm also interested in learning about the way that Samurai were structured: what was the "chain of command" so-to-speak? How did Japanese clans of the period manage officers and soldiers in an organizational sense?