Arms and Armor of the Samurai : the History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan /
Bottomley, Ian.
Arms and Armor of the Samurai : the History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan / Ian Bottomley. - N.Y. Crescent Books 1988 - 192p index gloss illus
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.
0517644673 9780517644676
Weapons--History.--Japan
Armor--History.--Japan
Samurai.
Arms and Armor of the Samurai : the History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan / Ian Bottomley. - N.Y. Crescent Books 1988 - 192p index gloss illus
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.
0517644673 9780517644676
Weapons--History.--Japan
Armor--History.--Japan
Samurai.