Karl Friday, an internationally recognised authority on Japanese warriors, provides the first comprehensive study of the topic to be published in English. This work incorporates nearly twenty years of
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 develop
For students and scholars of Japanese history, Friday (IES Abroad Tokyo Center, Japan) assembles 38 chapters that survey the history of Japan from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Addressing the
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, f
