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Arms and Armor of the Samurai : the History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan / Ian Bottomley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: N.Y. Crescent Books 1988Description: 192p index gloss illusISBN:
  • 0517644673
  • 9780517644676
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CONTENTS: The origins of the warrior class -- The samurai during the Gempei Wars -- The Kamakura and Nambokucho periods -- Civil unrest: the Ashikaga Shogunate -- The evolution of modern armour -- The arrival of the southern barbarians -- Japan in isolation: the Edo period.
Summary: Illustrates the long development of arms and armor in the samurai's seven-hundred-year history.
Item type: Book
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Atkins, Victor Kennicott, Jr. '63 - gift

CONTENTS: The origins of the warrior class -- The samurai during the Gempei Wars -- The Kamakura and Nambokucho periods -- Civil unrest: the Ashikaga Shogunate -- The evolution of modern armour -- The arrival of the southern barbarians -- Japan in isolation: the Edo period.

Illustrates the long development of arms and armor in the samurai's seven-hundred-year history.

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