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NOBUNAGA
samurai in modern america
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Featured in The New York Times during the 2026 World Cup conversation around viral stories of America.

NOBUNAGA has been mentioned and discussed alongside other viral, character-led stories that gained attention during the 2026 World Cup — when the world spent a few weeks looking, very closely, at the small details of American life.

Below is recent coverage of the project.

The New York Times
Food · June 18, 2026

“Nobunaga, the Japanese wanderer whose reverential written meditations on X about bottomless baskets of chips and salsa at a Mexican restaurant in the United States, isn’t quite what some observers have taken him for…”

from Those World Cup Tourists Loving American Food? They’re Not All What They Seem. — quoting the chips & salsa post and the project’s spirit of parody and cultural commentary.

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A short note

NOBUNAGA is a fictional comedy project, not a news outlet, despite the name. It is written in Japanese and translated into English with the help of AI tools. The samurai is a character. The diners, drive-thrus, and bagel shops he meets are composites. The kindness is real.

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A samurai with his sword
📜 The wandering samurai is bound at last. All my books, now on Amazon.
Paperback stands ready today. The Kindle scroll rides in any day now. Every tale carries a fresh afterword.
See all my books → A papercraft samurai turning aside a hail of bullets with his blade, allies cheering behind him
This rōnin carries no gun — only a sword, a brush, and a small glowing phone.
Every tale here is drawn and written by one wandering hand. If it warmed you, help fuel the next hundred.
☕ Buy this samurai a coffee
packed for the American road
Self-heating coffee mugThe diner refill, now following him home. Hand-crank coffee grinderHe grinds the morning by hand. America calls it espresso. Camping coffee makerCoffee on the road. Honor in a small pot. Milk frotherFoam, as if the diner came with him. Cast iron Dutch ovenA pot large enough for a Sunday truce. BBQ prep tubThe backyard feast begins in this tub. Crocodile corn holdersCorn on the cob, held by crocodiles. He wrote that down. Gnome garlic keeperA small gnome guards the garlic. He salutes it nightly. Desk clamp power stripAmerica hides a hundred outlets in one strip. Neck pillow for the roadThe long road asks for a neck that still bows. Battery tenderThe truck sleeps. The battery does not. Marine radioThe coast speaks in radio. He answers with a bow.