Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture

Karl F. Friday

Western scholars and educators are generally far less familiar with the samurai in his original-and, ostensibly, primary-role as warrior and masters of arms than in his other functions as landowner, feudal lord, literature, or philosopher. Yet, any attempt to comprehend fully the samurai without considering his military abilities and training (bugei) is futile. With verve and wit, Karl Friday combines the results of nearly two decades of fieldwork and archival research to examine samurai martial culture from a broad perspective: as a historical phenomenon, as a worldview, and as a system of physical, spiritual, and moral education.

Arts & Photography

Seki, Humitake

History & Criticism

University of Hawaii Press

A study of the institution of war in Japan over seven centuries.

Samurai, Warfare & the State in Early Medieval Japan

History

World

Ucl Pr Ltd

Collected to memorialize the career and teachings of a leading authority on medieval Japanese history, these essays contribute cutting edge historical analysis of a multifaceted array of topics. These eleven illuminating essays focus on the social, economic, regional and institutional dynamics of Japan's medieval era, and subject existing understandings and conceptualizations of this period to penetrating scrutiny. The essays individually and collectively advance historical inquiry about medieval times to new levels of perception, and provide new points of departure for the field and for those interested in comparative studies more broadly.

Currents in Medieval Japanese History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey P. Mass

Thomas D. Conlan

Figueroa Press

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