Samurai and the warrior culture of Japan, 471-1877 : a source book / edited and translated, with an introduction, by Thomas Donald Conlan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conlan, Thomas, editor, translator.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Samurai--Japan--History--Sources.

Samurai.

Japan--History, Military--To 1868--Sources.

Japan.

Genre:

History.

Military history.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xxix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, Indiana : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2022]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: SECTION I The Story of Swords: Understanding the Warriors of Ancient Japan (471-900)

1. An Inscription on the Sakitama-Inariyama Sword

2. A Fifth-Century Sword from the Eta Funayama Tomb

3. Bright iyang) Sword and Shadow (yin) Sword

4. Sword of Sakanoue no Tamuramaro

SECTION II Warriors and the Court (900-1150)

1. Excerpt from "Tamakazura," The Tale of Genji

2. Excerpt from Chuyuki, the Courtier Journal of Fujiwara no Munetada, 5.20.1108

3. "How Taira no Masakado Raised a Rebellion and Was Killed" and "How the Noble Minamoto no Yoriyoshi Chastised Abe no Sadato and His Followers," from Konjaku Monogatari

SECTION III The Wars of the Twelfth Century (1150-1189) and the Creation of a Warrior Government

1. Excerpts from "The Heiji Rebellion," in Jien's Thirteenth-Century History The Gukansho

2. An Order (kudashibumi) Issued / Tairano Kiyomori

3. Civil War in the 1180s

4. The Difficulty of Estimating Army Size

SECTION IV The Age of Kamakura Ascendancy (1221-1333)

1. Go-Toba's Order to Chastise Hojo Yoshitoki

2. The Will (yuzurijo) of Nejime Kiyoshige

3. Hojo Yoshitoki's Letter to the Shimazu of Satsuma Province

4. A Directive (mikyojo) from Hojo Yoshitoki to Ichikawa Rokuro

5. A Rokuhara Order (gechijo)

6. A Kanto Order {gechijo)

7. Excerpt from The Chronicle of Joky u

8. Excerpt from the Baishoron Account of the Jokyu War

9. The Formulary of Adjudication/Joei Code (Goseibai shikimoku) (1232)

10. Letter from Hojo Yasutoki Concerning the Formulary

11. Kamakura Amendments (Tsuikaho)

12. Bakufu Justice: A Case Study

13. Hojo Shigetoki's Letter to His Son Nagatoki

14. Excerpt from Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions

15. Legal Amendment (Tsuikaho) Concerning Rewards

16. Suenaga's Audience with Adachi Yasumori

17. Excerpts of Togan Ean's Statement of Opinion (ikenjo)

18. Summons (meshibumi) of the Chinzei Eastern Administrator

19. Kamakura's Attempt to Dispatch Forces to Korea

20. Petition for Reward (gunchujd) / Shami Shukumyo Okami Korechika

21. Copy of a Letter / Shoni Kagesuke

22. The New Laws (Shin-shikimoku) of Adachi Yasumori (1284-1285)

23. Excerpts from The Confessions of Lady Nijo

24. Excerpt from "The Light and Shadows of the Day," The Clear Mirror (Masukagami)

25. Kamakura's Response to the Asahara Assassination Attempt

26. Excerpts from Mine'aiki

27. Excerpt from "The Dayflower," The Clear Mirror (Masukagami)

28. Kanesawa Sadamasa Letter (Fragment)

29. Command (ryoji) of Prince Moriyoshi

30. Petition for Reward (gunchujd) / Harima Province

31. Document of Praise (kanjo), Aso Harutoki

32. Document of Damages (funshitsujo) / Nun Jikai

33. Copy of Mino Washimi Tadayasu's Petition for Reward (gunchujd an)

34. Command (ryoji) of the Fifth Prince (Moriyoshi)

SECTION V The Rise of the Ashikaga and the Life of Ashikaga Takauji (1305-1358)

1. Excerpt from Imagawa Ryoshun's Nantaiheiki

2. Ashikaga Tadayoshi Directive (mikyojo)

3. Ashikaga Takauji Prayer (gammon), Shinomura Shrine

4. Excerpts from Baishoron

5. Copy of a Letter (shojo an) / Ashikaga Takauji

6. Mobilization Order (gunzei saisokujd), Ashikaga Takauji

7. Ashikaga Takauji Prayer (ganmon)

8. Document (kakikudashi) / Ashikaga Tadayoshi

9. Reminiscences / Aiba Ujinao

10. Letter (shojo) by the Protector Priest (gojiso) Kenshun

11. Prayer (ganmon) by the Protector Priest (gojiso) Kenshun

12. Sutra Colophon Written / Ashikaga Takauji

SECTION VI Warfare in the Fourteenth Century: Warrior Experiences (1331

1392)

1. An Oath by Members of the Nejime Family

2. A Petition for Reward (gunchujd) / Hatano Kageuji

3. Takeda Nobutaka Document of Praise (kanjd)

4. A Cosigned Document (rensho shojo)

5. The Letters of the Yamanouchi

6. A Document by Kd no Morofuyu (hdsho)

7. Yamanouchi Tokimichi Report of Arrival (chakutdjd)

8. Oaths and the Kanno Disturbance

9. Petition for Reward (gunchujd) / Aso Koresumi

10. A Document of Loss (funshitsujo) / Tannowa Nagashige

11. Excerpts from "The Battle of Ryusenji," Taiheiki

12. Excerpts from The Chronicle of Meitoku

SECTION VII The Ashikaga Decline and the Onin War (1441-1477)

1. Prince Sadafusa's Account of the Assassination of Ashikaga Yoshinori (1441)

2. The Poems of Iikyu (1394-1481)

3. The Onin War (1467-1477)

4. The Process of Praise and Rewards: A Case Study

5. Selection from the Inrydken Nichiroku Concerning Guns

6. The Chronicle of Onin (Excerpt)

7. Observations from Hekizan Nichiroku

8. Kilckawa Mototsune Roster of Wounds

9. Remembering the Onin War

SECTION VIII The Rise of Regional Hegemons (Daitnyo) (1450-1557)

1. Ouchi Laws Regarding Violence

2. Ouchi Regulations for Yamaguchi, 4.29.1486

3. Ouchi Regulations for Yamaguchi, 4.20.1487

4. Further Prohibitions Regarding Killing

5. Prohibitions of Loitering

6. Ouchi Reverence for Kamakura Law

7. More Laws Concerning Violence

8. Regulations Concerning Shipping

9. Portrait of Hosokawa Sumimoto

10. The Jinkaishu, Laws of the Date

11. Mori Motonari Oaths

SECTION IX The First European Encounter (1543-87)

1. Ouchi Yoshinaga's Commendation

2. Portuguese Translation of Ouchi Yoshinaga's Commendation

3. Letter / Otomo Sorin

4. Photo of Otomo Francisco (Sorin) Saddle with FRCO Monogram

5. Photos of Otomo Francisco (Sorin) Cannon with FRCO Monogram

6. The Dissemination of Guns: The Example of the Takeda

7. Portuguese Recipe for Gunpowder, Given by Ashikaga Yoshiteru to the Daimyd Uesugi Kenshin in 1559

SECTION X The Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Transformations: The Creation of "Samurai" (1575-1691)

1. Ota Gyuichi, The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga (1610)

2. Letter / Shimotsuma Rairen

3. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Edict Concerning the Collection of Swords (1588)

4. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Edict Regarding the Separation of Status (1591)

5. The 100 Article Code of Chosokabe Motochika

6. A Receipt of Noses

7. The Memoir of a Unification Era Warrior, Fukutomi Han'emon

8. The Buke Shohatto of 1615

9. The Revised Buke Shohatto of 1635

10. Kumazawa Banzan, "Abolition of the Separate Soldier Class"

SECTION XI The Samurai of the Tokugawa Era (1603-1867)

1. Excerpts from Arai Hakuseki's Autobiography

2. Excerpts from The Book of the Samurai Hagakure / Yamamoto Tsunetomo

3. Selections from Musui's Story: The Autobiography ofa Tokugawa Samurai

4. Selection from The Autobiography ofYukichi Fukuzawa

5. Selection from Remembering Aizu: The Testament of Shiba Gord

6. Two Petitions for Reward {gunchujd) Submitted in 1869

SECTION XII Abolishing the Samurai (1868-1877)

1. The Japan Mail: Abolishing of the Samurai Right to Wear Swords

2. Selections from The Diary of Kido Takayoshi.

Notes:

Source materials translated from Japanese.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Samurai and the warrior culture of Japan, 471-1877.

ISBN:

9781647920562

1647920566

9781647920395

1647920396

OCLC:

1341447649

Publisher Number:

99993117995