Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan

By Karl F. Friday

Book Overview

This book is a broadly-cast study of the purposes, methods, technology and mores of warfare among the early samurai, and their relationship to the polity and social structure of tenth to fourteenth century Japan.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415329620
• ISBN13: 9780415329620
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"