Samurai: An Illustrated History
Samurai: An Illustrated History
Editor/Author
Kure, Mitsuo
Publication Year: 2010
Publisher: Greene Media
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-80-483287-8
Category: History - World history
Image Count:
258
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
For 700 years Japanese civilization was dominated by a single warrior caste. This project looks at arms, armor and costumes of Samurai men and women over the centuries with specially commissioned photography of reenactors wearing museum-quality clothing.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- PART 1: The Centuries of the Samurai
- CHAPTER 1: The Rise of the Warrior Class
- CHAPTER 2: The Prosperity of the Heishi
- CHAPTER 3: The Struggle between the Genji and Heishi
- CHAPTER 4: The Hojo Regency
- CHAPTER 5: The Mongol Invasions
- CHAPTER 6: The Fall of the Kamakura Bakufu and the Revival of Imperial Government
- CHAPTER 7: The Muromachi Bakufu
- CHAPTER 8: The Onin War and the Beginnings of Gekokujo
- CHAPTER 9: The Age of Battles—Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- CHAPTER 10: The Reign of Hideyoshi
- CHAPTER 11: Sekigahara—A Decisive Battle?
- CHAPTER 12: The Osaka Campaign
- CHAPTER 13: The Christian Rebellion in Shimabara
- CHAPTER 14: The Tokugawa Bakufu
- CHAPTER 15: Dragon Horse, A Pioneer of Modern Japan
- PART 2: The Age of the Country at War Representative Campaigns and Families
- The Battle of Okehazama, 1560
- The Bears of Kyushu from the 8th to the 16th Centuries AD
- The Arrows of Chugoku, 1498-1571
- Uesugi Kenshin & Takeda Shingen mid-16th Century AD
- Chaos in Kanto 15th & 16th Centuries AD
- Samurai Culture
- Armor in the 5th to 10th Centuries AD
- Armor of the Heian Period (Late 8th to 12th Centuries AD)
- Armor of the 12th to 14th Centuries
- Weapons of the Samurai: The Bow
- The Sohei
- Armor of the 14th to 16th Centuries— do maru and haramaki
- ‘Modern’ armor—tosei gusoku
- Weapons of the Samurai: The Sword
- Handling the Arquebus
- Women in Samurai Society
- Flags of Family Contingents in the Sekigahara Campaign
- The Samurai Code
- Fortifications and Castles
- Weapons of the Samurai: Pole-Weapons
- CHRONOLOGY
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY