Musui S Story
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Musui S Story
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Author : Katsu Kokichi
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2023-02-21
Musui S Story written by Katsu Kokichi and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-21 with History categories.
A series of picaresque adventures set against the backdrop of a Japan still closed off from the rest of the world, Musui's Story recounts the escapades of samurai Katsu Kokichi. As it depicts Katsu stealing, brawling, indulging in the pleasure quarters, and getting the better of authorities, it also provides a refreshing perspective on Japanese society, customs, economy, and human relationships. From childhood, Katsu was given to mischief. He ran away from home, once at thirteen, making his way as a beggar on the great trunk road between Edo and Kyoto, and again at twenty, posing as the emissary of a feudal lord. He eventually married and had children but never obtained official preferment and was forced to supplement a meager stipend by dealing in swords, selling protection to shopkeepers, and generally using his muscle and wits. Katsu's descriptions of loyalty and kindness, greed and deception, vanity and superstition offer an intimate view of daily life in nineteenth-century Japan unavailable in standard history books. Musui's Story will delight not only students of Japan's past but also general readers who will be entranced by Katsu's candor and boundless zest for life.
Musui S Story
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Author : Kokichi Katsu
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1991-07-01
Musui S Story written by Kokichi Katsu and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author, a Japanese samurai of the nineteenth century, looks back on his life and shares his observations on Japanese society
Musui S Story
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Author : Kokichi Katsu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Musui S Story written by Kokichi Katsu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Japan categories.
Selvbiografi af Katsu Kokichi (1802-1850), som var samurai i Tokugawa-perioden
The Samurai S Tale
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Author : Erik Christian Haugaard
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2005
The Samurai S Tale written by Erik Christian Haugaard and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
When the powerful Lord Takeda's soldiers sweep across the countryside, killing and plundering, they spare the boy Taro's life and take him along with them. Taro becomes a servant in the household of the noble Lord Akiyama, where he meets Togan, a cook, who teaches Taro and makes his new life bearable. But when Togan is murdered, Taro's life takes a new direction: He will become a samurai, and redeem the family legacy that has been stolen from him.
Adventures Of Ikata Tikata
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Author : R.Chitra Raghavan
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Release Date : 2015-07-07
Adventures Of Ikata Tikata written by R.Chitra Raghavan and has been published by Partridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The adventures of Ikata and Tikata happen to be the children’s favourite. It is about two naughty but good hearted children who constantly get into trouble with people around them for their bad behaviour. However they manage to escape into enchanted places and have magical adventures with toys and animals, who happen to love them for who they are and help them handle several situations in the real world.
The Samurai S Garden
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Author : Gail Tsukiyama
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2008-06-24
The Samurai S Garden written by Gail Tsukiyama and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-24 with Fiction categories.
The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama's The Samurai's Garden uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for this extraordinary story. A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soulmate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.
Lust Commerce And Corruption
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Author : Mark Teeuwen
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-28
Lust Commerce And Corruption written by Mark Teeuwen and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-28 with History categories.
By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed headed for a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last forever was far from anyone's mind. Yet, in that year, an anonymous samurai produced a scathing critique of Edo society. Writing as Buyo Inshi, "a retired gentleman of Edo," he expressed in An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard a profound despair with the state of the realm. Seeing decay wherever he turned, Buyo feared the world would soon descend into war. In his anecdotes, Buyo shows a sometimes surprising familiarity with the shadier aspects of Edo life. He speaks of the corruption of samurai officials; the suffering of the poor in villages and cities; the operation of brothels; the dealings of blind moneylenders; the selling and buying of temple abbotships; and the dubious strategies seen in law courts. Perhaps it was the frankness of his account that made him prefer to stay anonymous. A team of Edo specialists undertook the original translation of Buyo's work. This abridged edition streamlines this translation for classroom use, preserving the scope and emphasis of Buyo's argument while eliminating repetitions and diversions. It also retains the introductory essay that situates the work within Edo society and history.
Warriors Of Japan As Portrayed In The War Tales
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Author : Paul Varley
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1994-07-01
Warriors Of Japan As Portrayed In The War Tales written by Paul Varley and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-07-01 with History categories.
A leading cultural historian of premodern Japan draws a rich portrait of the emerging samurai culture as it is portrayed in gunki-mono, or war tales, examining eight major works spanning the mid-tenth to late fourteenth centuries. Although many of the major war tales have been translated into English, Warriors of Japan is the first book-length study of the tales and their place in Japanese history. The war tales are one of the most important sources of knowledge about Japan's premodern warriors, revealing much about the medieval psyche and the evolving perceptions of warriors, warfare, and warrior customs.
Hired Swords
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Author : Karl F. Friday
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1996-03-01
Hired Swords written by Karl F. Friday and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03-01 with History categories.
Tracing the evolution of state military institutions from the seventh through the twelfth centuries, this book challenges much of the received wisdom of Western scholarship on the origins and early development of warriors in Japan. This prelude to the rise of the samurai, who were to become the masters of Japan's medieval and early modern eras, was initiated when the imperial court turned for its police and military protection to hired swords--professional mercenaries largely drawn from the elites of provincial society. By the middle of the tenth century, this provincial military order had been handed a virtual monopoly of Japan's martial resources. Yet it was not until near the end of the twelfth century that these warriors took the first significant steps toward asserting their independence from imperial court control. Why did they not do so earlier? Why did they remain obedient to a court without any other military sources for nearly 300 years? Why did the court put itself in the potentially (and indeed, ultimately) precarious situation of contracting for its military needs with private warriors? These and related questions are the focus of the author's study. Most of the few Western treatments see the origins of the samurai in the incompetence and inactivity of the imperial court that forced residents in the provinces to take up arms themselves. According to this view, a warrior class was spontaneously generated just as one had been in Europe a few centuries earlier, and the Japanese court was doomed to eventually perish by the sword because of its failure to live by it. Instead, the author argues that it was largely court activism that put swords in the hands of rural elites, thatcourt military policy, from the very beginning of the imperial state era, followed a long-term pattern of increasing reliance on the martial skills of the gentry. This policy reflected the court's desire for maximum efficiency in its military institutions, and the policy's succes
Women Of The Mito Domain
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Author : Kikue Yamakawa
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2001
Women Of The Mito Domain written by Kikue Yamakawa and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.
Based on the recollection of the author's mother, other relatives, and family records, this is a vivid picture of the everyday life of a samurai household in the last years of the Tokugawa period.