This book traces the samurai throughout this history, exploring their roles in watershed events such as Japan's invasions of Korea at the close of the sixteenth century and the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877. Coming alive in these accounts are the samurai, both famed and ordinary, who shaped Japanese history.
Japan's Past and Present
Kosaku Yoshino, John Lie, Dick Stegewerns, Roger Goodman, Anne E. Imamura, Pia Moberg, Inken Prohl, Jaqueline Berndt, Elisabet Yanagisawa Avén, Kristina Fridh, Blaine Brownell, M. Antoni J. Ucerler, Stephen Turnbull, Christal Whelan, Mark Williams, Anne Walthall, Thomas D. Conlan, Karl Friday, Natasha Bennett, Constantine N. Vaporis, Michael Wert, Oleg Benesch, James L. Huffman, Naoki Sakai, Peter Nosco, Margaret Mehl, John Breen, James E. Ketelaar, Lars Vargö
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Samurai : A Concise History
Michael Wert
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