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Samurai : a concise history /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wert, Michael (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Samurai. HISTORY > Asia > Japan. HISTORY > Medieval.

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