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by Stephen Turnbull (Author) "The men who did the fighting during the Sengoku Period were the samurai ('those who serve'), Japan's equivalent of the European knight ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Osprey Publishing; illustrated edition edition (15 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841764809
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841764801
  • Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 16.8 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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In 1467 the Onin War ushered in a period of unrivalled conflict and rivalry in Japan that came to be called the Age of Warring States. In this text Turnbull offers an exposition of the wars. He explains what led to Japan's disintegration into warring states after more than a century of peace; the years of fighting that followed; and the period of gradual fusion when the daimyo (great names) strove to reunite Japan under a new shogun. Peace returned to Japan with the end of the Osaka War in 1615, but only at the end of the most violent, turbulent, cruel and exciting time in Japanese history.

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Stephen Turnbull is the world's leading English language authority on medieval Japan and the samurai. He has travelled extensively in the far east, particularly in Japan and Korea and is the author of 'The Samurai - A Military History' and Men-at-Arms 86: 'Samurai Armies 1550-1615'.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good but Flawed Hisitory of the Sengoku Jidai, 26 Aug 2008
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I'm a fan of Stephen Turnbull's books, and I consider him to be one of the most readable historians at work today. He is a professor of Japanese religion, and a world-renowned expert on the Samurai who's spent several decades studying the subject. As a result he's the best the person available to cover this daunting subject.

Sadly though, this book fails to condense the history of the Sengoku Jidai for the reader, and that's more to do with the format of the book, rather than the skills of the author.
The 'Essential Histories' is a series of books by Osprey Military Publishing that presents the "political, strategic, tactical, cultural, and individual perspectives on war". The problem is that this book is far too short to cover the 148 years that made up this conflict. The First and Second World Wars, the American Civil War, and the Napoleonic Wars, all have a multi-volume set, and because of the length of the Sengoku Jidai it does deserve another title to give it justice.

When you are dealing with such a long war, and especially with a war that has battles being fought at several spots around Japan by numerous factions in a single year, it is virtually impossible to cover it all in one 93-page book. As a result the author has to discriminate and choose events that he considers important. What you end with up though is a confusing mish mash of unrelated events. Turnbull does provide a lively overview, but it still doesn't give you a broad or detailed understanding of the war.

That said the book does have some interesting sections. One section looks at an individual soldier's perspective on the war, using the life of Kato Kiyomasa as an example. The war is also seen from a civilian point of view, as Turnbull tells us the story of Sen Rikyu, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's tea master, who was eventually executed and later deified as the god of tea. Turnbull also discusses the world around war, explaining how the war affected farming, and led to creation of the farmer-warrior.

The book finishes by discussing the eventual supremacy of Tokugawa Ieyasu as Shogun of Japan. The government he established would bring peace to Japan for the next 250 years, but at a price. The country entered into a period of self imposed isolation, which Turnbull discusses at the book's end, which left Japan stuck in a feudal 'Medieval' society which was surpassed by the industrial nations of the West.

Overall, this is a readable and well illustrated title. The author has included dozens of interesting photographs from his Japan Archive, from woodblock prints and Ukiyo-e art, to modern photographs of historical sites. These compliment the book well. Sadly though, the book's length and format is it's greatest enemies, as it leaves you with a confusing and mixed view of the war.
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