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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Samurai
    sub title: a concise history
  name:
    name part: Wert, Michael
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 118 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike to the kabuki retellings of the 47 Ronin. This legacy remains with us today in the legendary Akira Kurosawa films, the shoguns of HBO's Westworld and countless renditions of samurai history in anime, manga and video games. Acknowledging these common depictions, this book gives readers access to the real samurai as they lived, fought and served. Much as they capture the modern imagination, the samurai commanded influence over the politics, arts, philosophy and religion of their own time, and ultimately controlled Japan from the fourteenth century until their demise in the mid-nineteenth century. On and off the battlefield, whether charging an enemy on horseback or currying favor at the imperial court, their story is one of adventures and intrigues, heroics and misdeeds, unlikely victories and devastating defeats. This book traces the samurai throughout this history, exploring their roles in watershed events such as Japan's invasions of Korea at the close of the sixteenth century and the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877. Coming alive in these accounts are the samurai, both famed and ordinary, who shaped Japanese history.
  table of contents: Chapter One: Becoming Those Who Served -- Chapter Two: Early Warrior Authority -- Chapter Three: War and Culture -- Chapter Four: Warriors in an Age of Peace -- Chapter Five: Samurai Invention and Decline -- Notes - Further Reading -- Index.
  note: Michael Wert.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a------
  subject:
    topic: Samurai
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Asia
    topic: Japan
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Medieval
  classification: DS827.S3 W47 2019
  classification: 952/.025
  identifier: 9780190932947
  identifier: 0190932945
  identifier: 2018057505
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181203
    record change date: 20191021075541.0
    record identifier: in00004078419