Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan
Product Description
Condition - Very Good
The item shows wear from consistent use but remains in good condition. It may arrive with damaged packaging or be repackaged.
Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan
- Used Book in Good Condition
Tracing the evolution of state military institutions from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, this book challenges much of the received wisdom of Western scholarship on the origins and early development of warriors in Japan.
Technical Specifications
You might also like
Warrior Rule in Japan (Cambridge History of Japan)
The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan
Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales
In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan (Cornell East Asia Series)
State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)
Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
The Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado
Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
The Bakufu in Japanese History