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Author : Arthur Swinson
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Four Samurai written by Arthur Swinson and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 1968 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eiko Ikegami
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067425466X
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Taming of the Samurai written by Eiko Ikegami and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-25 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have played in Japanese history. From their rise in ancient Japan, through their dominance as warrior lords in the medieval period, and their subsequent transformation to quasi-bureaucrats at the beginning of the Tokugawa era, the samurai held center stage in Japan until their abolishment after the opening up of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century. This book demonstrates how Japan’s so-called harmonious collective culture is paradoxically connected with a history of conflict. Ikegami contends that contemporary Japanese culture is based upon two remarkably complementary ingredients, honorable competition and honorable collaboration. The historical roots of this situation can be found in the process of state formation, along very different lines from that seen in Europe at around the same time. The solution that emerged out of the turbulent beginnings of the Tokugawa state was a transformation of the samurai into a hereditary class of vassal-bureaucrats, a solution that would have many unexpected ramifications for subsequent centuries. Ikegami’s approach, while sociological, draws on anthropological and historical methods to provide an answer to the question of how the Japanese managed to achieve modernity without traveling the route taken by Western countries. The result is a work of enormous depth and sensitivity that will facilitate a better understanding of, and appreciation for, Japanese society.
Author : Shūsaku Endō
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213462
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (134 download)
Download or read book The Samurai written by Shūsaku Endō and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered one of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, THE SAMURAI seamlessly combines historical fact with a novelist's imaginings. Set in the period preceding the Christian persecutions in Japan recorded so memorably in Endo's SILENCE, this book traces the steps of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil.
Author : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Samurai written by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically arranged entries along with primary source documents provide a comprehensive examination of the lives of Japan's samurai during the Tokugawa or Edo period, 1603–1868, a time when Japan transitioned from civil war to extended peace. The samurai were an aristocratic class of warriors who imposed and maintained peace in Japan for more than two centuries during the Tokugawa or Edo period, 1603–1868. While they maintained a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, as a result of the peace the samurai themselves were transformed over time into an educated, cultured elite—one that remained fiercely proud of its military legacy and hyper-sensitive in defending their individual honor. This book provides detailed information about the samurai, beginning with a timeline and narrative historical overview of the samurai. This is followed by more than 100 alphabetically arranged entries on topics related to the samurai, such as ritual suicide, castles, weapons, housing, clothing, samurai women, and more. The entries cite works for further reading and often include sidebars linking the samurai to popular culture, tourist sites, and other information. A selection of primary source documents offers firsthand accounts from the era, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Author : Chris Bradford
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961619
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4) written by Chris Bradford and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JACK FLETCHER IS ON THE RUN With no sensei to guide him, he has just his wits and his swords against many new and unknown enemies, as he journeys along the treacherous road to the port of Nagasaki and perhaps home... But the Shogun's samurai are hot on his trail. Barely escaping their clutches, Jack runs headlong into a trap. Kidnapped by ninja and led to their village deep in the mountains, Jack has no means of escape. The only question is who will kill him first - the ninja or samurai?
Author : Hiroaki Sato
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468301373
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Legends of the Samurai written by Hiroaki Sato and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative history of Japan’s elite warrior class separates fact from myth as it chronicles centuries of samurai combat, culture, and legend. In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato examines the history of these medieval Japanese warriors, as well as the many long-standing myths that surround them. In doing so, he presents an authentic and revealing picture of these men and their world. Sato’s masterful translations of original samurai tales, laws, dicta, reports, and arguments are accompanied by insightful commentary. With incisive historical research, this volume chronicles the changing ethos of the Japanese warrior from the samurai's historical origins to his rise to political power. A fascinating look at Japanese history as seen through the evolution of the samurai, Legends of the Samurai stands as the ultimate authority on its subject.
Author : Sandy Fussell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921150913
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Monkey Fist written by Sandy Fussell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth instalment in a unique series about a special group of kids training in the ways of the samurai. Yoshi is keeping a secret from the other samurai kids and when Kyoko is kidnapped by an evil enemy from Sensei Ki-Yaga's past, it may prevent the samurai kids from rescuing her. Kyoko has been kidnapped. Why would Secretary Lu Zeng, advisor to the emperor, want to kidnap a samurai kid? Sensei believes Lu Zeng has set him a challenge to settled old scores. But Niya thinks Lu Zeng's motives are more sinister. Sensei and the Little Cockroaches must act quickly. With the help of the Lin people, they set off on a daring search-and-rescue missing. Does Lu Zeng want Kyoko for one of his experiments? Will they get to her in time?
Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849089965
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Samurai written by Stephen Turnbull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Turnbull, the world's leading authority on the samurai, goes beyond the battlefield to paint a picture of the samurai as they really were. This book explores the samurai within the context of an all-encompassing warrior culture that was expressed through art and poetry as much as through violence. Using themed chapters, Turnbull illuminates the samurai through their historical development and their relationship to the world around them – relationships that are shown to persist in Japan even today.
Author : Joan Mellen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838718044
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Seven Samurai written by Joan Mellen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the film 'Seven Samurai' (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Many people consider this film a major achievemnet in Japanese cinema, an epic that evokes the cultural upheaval brought on by the collapse of Japanese militarism in the 16th century, echoing the sweeping changes occuring in the aftermath of the American occupation. The plot is deceptively simple. A village of farmers is beset by a horde of bandits, and in desperation the village hire itinerant samurai to protect their crops and their village. In the end the samurai see off the bandits. Together the samurai reflect the ideals and values of a noble class near the point of extinction. The film may be a technical masterpiece, and despite its movement and violence it appears to be a lament for a lost nobility. In this book Mellen contextualizes 'Seven Samurai', marking its place in Japanese cinema, and in director, Akira Kurosawa's career. Mellen explores the film's roots in mediaeval history and the film's visual language.
Author : Stephen R. Turnbull
Publisher : Enchanted Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781592700608
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Real Samurai written by Stephen R. Turnbull and published by Enchanted Lion Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive, highly engaging introduction to the world of the samurai for young readers." "Booklist" The Real series is a collection of four titles that includes "Real Pirates," "Real Knights," "Real Samurai," and "Real Ninja." Each title has been described as "excellent" and a real draw for even the reluctant reader."
Author : Pamela S. Turner
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580895859
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Samurai Rising written by Pamela S. Turner and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family—and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery. Skinny, small, and unskilled in the warrior arts, he nevertheless escaped and learned the ways of the samurai. When the time came for the Minamoto clan to rise up against their enemies, Yoshitsune answered the call. His daring feats and impossible bravery earned him immortality.
Author : Michael Cooper
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590 written by Michael Cooper and published by Brill. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Following the pioneering work of Francis Xavier in establishing Christianity in Japan, his successor Alessandro Valignano, decided to send a legation to Europe representing the three Christian daimyo of Kyushu, southern Japan. It consisted of two Christian samurai boys who were chosen as legates, together with two teenage companions. They set sail from Nagasaki in February 1582 and were to be away for eight years." "This is the first book-length study in English of the mission and provides important new insights into the work of the Jesuits in Japan and the nature of the legation's impact on late-sixteenth-century European perceptions of Japan."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Chuck Laughlin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312118853
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Samurai Selling written by Chuck Laughlin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique guide for the modern salesperson shows sales professionals how to apply the code of the samurai to have fresh and powerful techniques to win lifelong customers. "Reveals the almost mystical power to sell that one gains from developing inner confidence".--Success Magazine.
Author : Don Easton
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770704515
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Samurai Code written by Don Easton and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a cheap handgun sets Jack on the trail of a heroin importer, he winds up in the lair of one of the largest Yakuza crime families, caught in a deadly clash of criminal cultures. This intriguing, suspense-packed novel is the fourth in the Jack Taggart Mystery series, continuing the story of Loose Ends, Above Ground, and Angel in the Full Moon. This time, the implacable Mountie Jack Taggart goes undercover to follow the trail of a cheap “Saturday-night special” handgun found at the scene of a murder. He traces the gun from the manufacturer to the person it was stolen from, and through several criminals, until the trail leads him to a suspected heroin importer. Posing as an Irish gangster to penetrate the criminal organization, Taggart discovers that the real crime boss is a mysterious figure out of Asia. Alone and without backup in the lair of one of the largest Yakuza organized crime families in Japan, Taggart finds himself caught in a deadly clash of criminal cultures.
Author : Romulus Hillsborough
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476628009
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Samurai Assassins written by Romulus Hillsborough and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assassination--in Japanese, ansatsu or "dark murder"--was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, by which the shogun's military government was overthrown and the Imperial monarchy restored in 1868. The ideology and moral philosophy of the men behind the revolution--including bushidō or "the way of the warrior"--informed their actions and would become the foundation of the emperor-worship of World War II. This first-ever account in English of the assassins who drove the revolution details one of the most volatile periods in Japanese history--also known as "the dawn of modern Japan."
Author : James R. Brandon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824827885
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (278 download)
Download or read book Masterpieces of Kabuki written by James R. Brandon and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterpieces of Kabuki contains eighteen outstanding dramas taken from the landmark four-volume series Kabuki Plays On Stage. Together they cover the entire spectrum of kabuki drama from 1697 to 1905, the period during which kabuki’s dramaturgy flourished prior to the onset of Western dramatic influence. Major playwrights, chronological periods of playwriting, and a variety of play types (history, domestic, and dance dramas) and performance styles are represented. All but one are in the current repertory and regularly staged. The volume includes introductions to each play and a new general introduction highlighting kabuki’s historical development and relating the plays to their performance context. As the subtitle implies, the plays are translated as if "on stage." Stage directions indicate major scenic effects, stage action, costuming, makeup, music, and sound effects. In some cases, complex stage actions such as stage fights are given in detail. The plays collected here are all marvelous examples of dramatic writing, intended to be acted on the stage before audiences. They reveal kabuki’s eras of brilliance and bravado, villainy and vengeance, darkness and desire, and restoration and reform. All continue to stir audiences to admiration and excitement.
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Author : Arthur Horace SWINSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Four Samurai. A Quartet of Japanese Army Commanders in the Second World War. [On Masaharu Homma, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Renya Mutaguchi, Masaki Honda. With Portraits and Maps.]. written by Arthur Horace SWINSON and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
