Japanese Armies 1868-1877: The Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion

by Gabriele Esposito

This title explains and illustrates the 19th-century transition of Japanese armies from traditional Samurai equipment and tactics to those of the Western world, and the armed clashes between the two cultures.

The restoration of the Meiji Imperial dynasty in 1868, after 250 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, decisively opened Japan to the outside world and the monarchy embraced modernization, including the creation of a new Westernized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472837088
• ISBN13: 9781472837080
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.1" x 9.5"