A collection of short, funny, heartfelt stories about a wandering samurai encountering modern America.
The samurai walks into a Mexican restaurant in Houston and is given chips he did not order. He drives — somehow — through a Waffle House at 4 a.m. and is given hash browns "scattered, smothered, and covered." He is held a door by a teenager in a hoodie. He is called "honey" by a woman who has never met him and will never meet him again.
He keeps a small notebook. This is that notebook.
The book collects the thirty most-read NOBUNAGA stories from X — chips and salsa, biscuits and gravy, the Animal Style, the stranger who renamed him Banana, the bottomless sweet tea — gathered into one place to read in order, without scrolling.
Each story is short — five minutes, sometimes two. Each one is built on the same simple machine: an old-world samurai applies his old-world seriousness to a very ordinary American thing, and the ordinary American thing turns out to be quietly wonderful.
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The samurai has a strict policy on intruding upon strangers.
He came for honor.
He stayed for free refills.
