Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales by H. Paul Varley

Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales

H. Paul Varley

292 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous mysterious medium-paced
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A leading cultural historian of premodern Japan draws a rich portrait of the emerging samurai culture as it is portrayed in gunki-mono, or war tales, examining eight major works spanning the mid-tenth to late fourteenth centuries. Although many of...

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