Legenda Pięciu Kręgów – amalgamat prawdziwej i fantastycznej Japonii w zachodniej kulturze popularnej

Miłosz Markocki’s chapter „Legend of the Five Rings”—RPG Game as a Source of Information about how Americans Project Japan analyses the eponymous role-playing game, originally created by Americans, then translated and published in Poland. The Game depicts fantastic landscapes, loosely based on medieval Japan, filled with magic, mystery, fantastic creatures, the samurai, the ninja and other figures associated with Japanese culture. Designed to be alluring and attractive for the Euro-American player, the game presents an intriguing combination of facts, social structure, and a number of elements of Japanese history, folklore and mythology, which fuse to create the reality of Rokugan. Therefore, Legend of the Five Rings is a rich source of information concerning the way Americans create fantastic imagery of Japan. Moreover, the game highlights those elements of Japanese society and culture that are most familiar yet exotic to the Euro-American audience.