Suwa Yorishige, the Living Deity of Suwa Grand Shrine — the History Behind The Elusive Samurai If you have been watching The Elusive Samurai, you have met Suwa Yorishige. He is the strange, laughing man who takes in a hunted eight-year-old boy and announces that this child will one day rule Japan. The manga makes him a prophet. That is fiction. But the real Yorishige was something stranger than a prophet, and the truth is not a softer version of…
