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A study of Samurai history and culture. It features a detailed section on arms and armour, including the evolution and construction of samurai armour, the Japanese bow, the Samurai sword and polearms -plus the technology and deployment of explosives and gunpowder weapons. Strategy and tactics are explained, with details of command structures, the raising of armies, campaign life, the role of the castle, the characteristics of Japanese battles and the rituals and other consequences of battle. A catalogue of every major battle and siege from 940 to 1638 is followed by specific case studies examining such subjects as personal combat and guerrilla warfare. Further sections cover religion and the Samurai, Bushido and Harakiri, and a special section presents material on the heraldry used by the samurai.
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The most comprehensive encyclopaedia of samurai life and war
In this book I provide comprehensive data about the samurai. Some of the information you have seen before - inevitable in a work like this, but nearly all the illustrations are new, and you wil also find lots of new research on armour, weapons and campaigns, including a full list of samurai and heraldry and a huge gazeteer of battles with maps. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A study of Samurai history and culture. It features a detailed section on arms and armour, including the evolution and construction of samurai armour, the Japanese bow, the Samurai sword and polearms -plus the technology and deployment of explosives and gunpowder weapons. Strategy and tactics are explained, with details of command structures, the raising of armies, campaign life, the role of the castle, the characteristics of Japanese battles and the rituals and other consequences of battle. A catalogue of every major battle and siege from 940 to 1638 is followed by specific case studies examining such subjects as personal combat and guerrilla warfare. Further sections cover religion and the Samurai, Bushido and Harakiri, and a special section presents material on the heraldry used by the samurai.
From the Author
The most comprehensive encyclopaedia of samurai life and war
In this book I provide comprehensive data about the samurai. Some of the information you have seen before - inevitable in a work like this, but nearly all the illustrations are new, and you wil also find lots of new research on armour, weapons and campaigns, including a full list of samurai and heraldry and a huge gazeteer of battles with maps. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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