Warriors Of Medieval Japan
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Warriors Of Medieval Japan
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Author : Stephen Turnbull
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-09-20
Warriors Of Medieval Japan written by Stephen Turnbull and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-20 with History categories.
Driven by strict codes of honour and bound by deep allegiances of rank, family or religion, the elite warriors of medieval Japan were bold fighters, loyal comrades and deadly enemies. With rare material from Japanese sources and lavish artwork and photography, this book examines the military lives, beliefs and battle experience of four formidable warrior types – samurai, ninja, warrior monk and ashigaru foot soldier – resulting in a highly authoritative account of Japan's warrior elite. Warriors of Medieval Japan combines material previously published as Warrior 29: Ashigaru 1467-1649, Warrior 64: Ninja AD 1460-1650, and Warrior 70: Japanese Warrior Monks AD 949-1603, with an added section on Samurai, additional images, and an updated introduction and conclusion.
The Samurai
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Author : Anthony J. Bryant
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Samurai written by Anthony J. Bryant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Armor, Medieval categories.
Samurai Warfare And The State In Early Medieval Japan
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Author : Karl F. Friday
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-08-02
Samurai Warfare And The State In Early Medieval Japan written by Karl F. Friday and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-02 with History categories.
Karl Friday, an internationally recognised authority on Japanese warriors, provides the first comprehensive study of the topic to be published in English. This work incorporates nearly twenty years of on-going research and draws on both new readings of primary sources and the most recent secondary scholarship. It overturns many of the stereotypes that have dominated views of the period. Friday analyzes Heian -, Kamakura- and Nambokucho-period warfare from five thematic angles. He examines the principles that justified armed conflict, the mechanisms used to raise and deploy armed forces, the weapons available to early medieval warriors, the means by which they obtained them, and the techniques and customs of battle. A thorough, accessible and informative review, this study highlights the complex casual relationships among the structures and sources of early medieval political power, technology, and the conduct of war.
The Origins Of Japan S Medieval World
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Author : Jeffrey P. Mass
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1997
The Origins Of Japan S Medieval World written by Jeffrey P. Mass 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 1997 with History categories.
This pioneering collection of 15 essays argues that Japan's medieval age began in the 14th century rather than the 12th, and marks the beginning of a fundamentally new debate about how Japan's lengthy classical period finally ended.
Swords Oaths And Prophetic Visions
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Author : Elizabeth Oyler
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Swords Oaths And Prophetic Visions written by Elizabeth Oyler 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 2006-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Investigates some historically important political and social issues raised by the Genpei War (1180-1185). This epic civil conflict, which ushered in Japan's age of the warriors, is famously articulated in the monumental narrative Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike).
Samurai Wisdom
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Author : Affinity Imprints
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-03
Samurai Wisdom written by Affinity Imprints and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with categories.
A collection of quotes from important samurai figures, including: Oda Nobunga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Miyamoto Musashi, and Date Masamune.
The Heart Of The Warrior
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Author : Catharina Blomberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-05
The Heart Of The Warrior written by Catharina Blomberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Social Science categories.
Traces the development of the samurai, both in the way they regarded themselves and their role in society.
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
The Origins Of Japan S Medieval World
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Author : Jeffrey P. Mass
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Origins Of Japan S Medieval World written by Jeffrey P. Mass and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Japan categories.
War And State Building In Medieval Japan
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Author : John A. Ferejohn
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-20
War And State Building In Medieval Japan written by John A. Ferejohn 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 2010-04-20 with History categories.
The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged in Japan at around the same time as it did in Europe, through the process of mobilizing fiscal resources and manpower for bloody wars between the 16th and 17th centuries. This book, which brings Japan's case into conversation with the history of state building in Europe, points to similar factors that were present in both places: population growth eroded clientelistic relationships between farmers and estate holders, creating conditions for intense competition over territory; and in the ensuing instability and violence, farmers were driven to make Hobbesian bargains of taxes in exchange for physical security.