Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death at the Crossroads | 1998 | Dale Furutani | Buy |
| 2 | Moarte la rascruce | 1998 | Dale Furutani | N/A |
| 3 | Jade Palace Vendetta | 1999 | Dale Furutani | Buy |
| 4 | A morte lo shogun | 2000 | Dale Furutani | N/A |
| 5 | Kill the Shogun | 2000 | Dale Furutani | Buy |
| 6 | Il ritorno del ronin | 2021 | Dale Furutani | N/A |
| 7 | The Ronin Returns | 2021 | Dale Furutani | Buy |
The Matsuyama Kaze series by Dale Furutani follows a ronin through seven books published between 1998 and 2021. The original trilogy consists of Death at the Crossroads (1998), Jade Palace Vendetta (1999), and Kill the Shogun (2000). The list also includes foreign-language editions of several entries, such as the Romanian Moarte la rascruce and the Italian A morte lo shogun and Il ritorno del ronin.
After a long gap following the original trilogy, The Ronin Returns arrived in 2021, picking up the story more than twenty years later. Readers should start with Death at the Crossroads and follow publication order from there, since the plot carries forward across the books.