Napping with Nobu

During the main quests, this appears p often. It literally means "Jin's Journey":

But the kanji for "Jin" -- 仁 -- also means "benevolence," emphasizing a respect for humanity. So 仁之道, while it means "Jin's Journey," can also be read as "the path/way of benevolence."

He isn't following the bushido, or 武士道，the way of the warrior/samurai, but rather 仁之道, the way of benevolence, a path that diverts sharply from the "honor" that samurai follow.

"Doesn't this feel sort of... familiar? Almost as if you've lived through this before?"

"Hmm... This ship better not go up in flames... again."

this is a total shot in the dark but does ANYONE have any Jin Sakai x reader stories with a male or gn reader??? ill take anything i just love him and cannot find ANYTHING

give me Jin who fell in love with one of the straw hat ronin. give me Jin who had something secret going on with a peasant boy back home. Jin reminiscing over a fellow samurai he lost on the beach. having a fling with one of the trappers he keeps running into. dreaming of the farmboy he promised he'd return home to. the possibilities are endless please someone send me something my crops are dying and they wither everytime i read one where you're his wife

Jin Sakai- Dragon Au

at my most delusional about to make a fic about this 🏃‍♀️💨

Jin Sakai and Yuna

better times

Sakai

I’m about 2/3rd of the way into “Ghost of Tsushima”. One, I did not expect that this game would be about the origins of the ninja. Two, in a weird way, this game is secretly a coming-of-age/generational gap story.

Our main hero is Jin, who represents the current generation. He was raised to follow the ways of his elders, namely his father and uncle. However, the old ways are limited since the Mongolian invaders don’t respect them. That’s when Jin meets Yuna, who is the “rebellious” youth who shows Jin a different way of handling the Mongols. Yuna’s way clashes with the elders’ ways, but she’s getting results. This ends up creating a moral panic in Jin since he’s torn between respecting his elders and doing whatever it takes to stop the Mongols.

It’s straight up a generational gap storyline. If you take away the samurai/ninja stuff:

1) Jin is the young man who grew up in a sheltered, conservative home but grows disillusioned with his elders due to the state of the world he’s in.

2) Yuna is the rebellious young woman who wants to save the world (let’s just say, her brother is her world) and has no respect in the older generation since she feels they are responsible for the troubles of the world, such as Yarikawa’s resistance to assisting Lord Shimura.

3) Lord Shimura represents the older generation that is set in their ways and is, albeit reluctantly, willing to punish the younger generation if they stray from tradition. He also represents how older generations have created problems that the younger generations are forced to deal with, such as Jin and Yuna needing to mend the strained relationship between Clan Yarikawa and Clan Shimura.

4) The Mongols in general represent the troubles of the world that both the older and younger generations have to deal with. However, both generations clash over how to deal with their mutual problems.

Hello everyone, if you go to the Morimae Hot Spring and decide to reflect on Ryuzo's death, Jin thinks something along the lines of, "Ryuzo, if you only you were here. You'd brag about how many Mongol heads you took, and crack your stupid jokes..."

I'm interpreting this as bisexually as possible. You can't stop me.

The thing about Jin that I'm not sure anybody pointed at is that no matter how much he betrayed the samurai code or fought to keep the island and its inhabitants safe from the invaders, or no matter how much he has to sleep in a dirty mat in a shack without part of its roof or has common people aid him in this fight, or has to make up with what little he is left with in the end, he will still call Tenzo worthless because of his unlucky upbringing. And I love that about him because it shows he still has that whole classism shit very internalized and that shit doesnt just go away, it takes work.

“If I was born as a blackthorn tree / I'd wanna be felled by you / Held by you / Fuel the pyre of your enemies”

Ghost of Tsushima Cinematic Edit

Best watched with phone in landscape.

Song- “Paint It Black” The Rolling Stones (Cover by Ramin Djawadi).