Anthony J. Bryant

Anthony J. Bryant (February 14, 1961 – December 25, 2013) was an American author and editor. He worked in Japan for a period of time, and became an authority on medieval Japanese armor and samurai culture.

Early life Bryant was born in Franklin, Indiana, and he was adopted at age 5 by Robert M. and Margaret Bryant. Following the death of his father when Bryant was 6, he and his mother moved to Miami Shores, Florida, where he spent his youth and attended Pinecrest Preparatory School.

Career While living in Japan, Bryant worked as a features editor for the Mainichi Daily News, and as editor for the Tokyo Journal, an English language monthly magazine. and the 54th World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim in 1996.

As an authority on Japanese armor, Bryant became widely involved in the Society for Creative Anachronism. He provided a foreword for The Watanabe Art Museum Samurai Armour Collection Volume 1: Kabuto & Mengu.

Bryant wrote four books for Osprey Publishing on samurai history, and co-authored, with Mark T. Arsenault, the core rulebook for the role-playing game Sengoku: Chanbara Roleplaying in Feudal Japan.

In Anime Sacramento, Laurine White responded to an article about Japanimation by Bryant that had been published in EYE-AI magazine, saying, "Some of what [Bryant] has to say is suspect, like 'Few who see Dr. Slump fail to love it.' If that were true, subtitled Dr. Slump should be in great demand. Sure it is!"

Death Bryant died on December 25, 2013, at St. Francis Health in Indianapolis. Iwaya no sōshi ("The Tale of the Cave House"): A Translation and Commentary, Indiana University (2003) Sekigahara 1600: The Final Struggle for Power, Praeger Publishers (September 2005)

Other works Nihon Katchu Seisakuben , a Japanese armor manual The Estates of Heian Nobility (essay)