Samurai Bibliography

 

Brown, Delmer M. "The Impact of Firearms on Japanese Warfare, 1543-98," The Far Eastern Quarterly, 7.3 (May, 1948): 236-253.

 

Conlan,Thomas.  The culture of force and farce: fourteenth-century Japanese warfare.  Cambridge: Harvard University, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, 2000.                                                                                        

                                                                                                  

--- .  In little need of divine intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's scrolls of the Mongol invasions of Japan.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.

                                                                        

Hurst, G. Cameron III.  “Death, honor, and loyality: The bushitô ideal,” Philosophy East and West 40.4 (October 1990): 511-527.

 

--- .  “The Warrior as Ideal for a New Age.”  In The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century, edited by Jeffrey P. Mass.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, 209-236.

 

--- .  Armed Martial Arts of Japan:  Swordsmanship and Archery.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

 

Farris, William Wayne. Heaven Warriors: The Evolution of Japan’s Military, 500-1300.  Harvard University Press, 1992.

 

Friday, Karl F. Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.

 

--- .  Legacies of the sword : the Kashima-Shinryu and samurai martial culture.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1997.

 

--- .  Samurai, warfare and the state in early medieval Japan.  London: Routledge, 2004.

 

Ikegami, Eiko.  The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

 

Oyler, Elizabeth.  Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2005.

 

Pinguet, Maurice. Voluntary death in Japan. Rosemary Morris, tr.  Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 1993.

 

Turnbull, S.R.  The Samurai: A Military History.  New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1977.

 

Vaporis, Constantine N. "Samurai and Merchant in Mid-Tokugawa Japan:  Tani Tannai's Record of Daily Necessities," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 60.1 (2000): 205-228.

 

Varley, H. Paul, Albert Dien (Editor),Ivan Morris (Editor),Ainslie T. Embree (Editor),Charles P. Issaw, The Onin War: History of Its Origins and Background with a Selective Translation of the Chronicle of Onin.  December 1966.

 

Varley, H. Paul. Warriors of Japan: As Portrayed in the War Tales.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1994.

 

Varley, H. Paul, “Cultural Life of the Warrior Elite in the Fourteenth Century.” In The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century, edited by Jeffrey P. Mass.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, 192-208.

 

Yamamoto Tsunetomo. Hagakure: The Book of Samurai.  Translated by William Scott Wilson.  Kodansha International, 1992.

 

Yamakawa Kikue.  Women of the Mito Domain:  Recollections of Samurai Family Life.  Translated by Kate Wildman Nakai.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

 

Yamamura Kozo, “The Increasing Poverty of the Samurai in Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1868,” Journal of Economic History 31.2 (Jun., 1971): 378-406.

 

Yumoto, John M.  The Samurai Sword.  Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1958.

 

Yuzan Daidoji, Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinsu.  Translated by Thomas Cleary.  Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1999.