This Samurai history, filled with dozens of woodblock prints and
photographs, is an authoritative text on Japan's most fearsome
warriors. Through fascinating stories and full-color historical
images that show the samurai in mesmerizing detail, military
historian Stephen Turnbull provides an invaluable guide to an
enduring legacy. The earliest samurai warriors were actually
aristocratic mounted archers, not swordsmen. Only as the archer
gave way to the mounted spearman did swordsmanship come into play.
Turnbull details how the history and the legacy of the samurai
developed over centuries into a multifaceted, richly elaborate
tapestry of martial and societal traditions. From the first
recorded use of the word samurai in the eighth century to the final
wars waged in resistance to the Meiji government in the late
nineteenth century, this Japanese history book recounts the complex
history of these warriors and demonstrates why the samurai continue
to fascinate the world today.
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