Varley: Warriors of Japan Paper

by Paul H. Varley and H. Paul Varley

Book Overview

A leading cultural historian of premodern Japan draws a rich portrait of the emerging samurai culture as it is portrayed in gunki-mono, or war tales, examining eight major works spanning the mid-tenth to late fourteenth centuries. Although many of the major war tales have been translated into English, Warriors of Japan is the first book-length study of the tales and their place in Japanese history. The war tales are one of the most important sources...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824815750
• ISBN13: 9780824815752
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"