Samurai

  • Samurai: The Flowering of Japan
    By David Pepper, Andrew Mancabelli, Frazier History Museum

    Samurai: The Flowering of Japan

  • Samurai
    By Kathleen Duey

    The Time Soldiers travel back in time to eighteenth-century Japan to the city of Edo and decide to help an elderly samurai who tells them about a helmet with a mysterious jade stone lost in battle when he was young.

  • Samurai
    By Kathleen Duey, Robert Gould

    Kathleen Duey, Robert Gould. 4 One rainy morning , six neighborhood kids find a time portal in the woods . Through swirling green light , they can see a living dinosaur ! They can't convince their parents the portal exists , so they ...

  • Samurai: a Very Short Introduction
    By Michael Wert

    ... David Palfreyman and Paul Temple THE U.S. CIVIL WAR Louis P. Masur THE U.S. CONGRESS Donald A. Ritchie THE U.S. CONSTITUTION David J. Bodenhamer THE U.S. SUPREME COURT Linda Greenhouse UTILITARIANISM Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and ...

  • Samurai: A Very Short Introduction
    By Michael Wert

    ... NUMBER THEORY Robin Wilson NUMBERS Peter M. Higgins NUTRITION David A. Bender OBJECTIVITY Stephen Gaukroger OCEANS Dorrik Stow THE OLD TESTAMENT Michael D. Coogan THE ORCHESTRA D. Kern Holoman ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Graham Patrick.

  • Samurai: A Concise History
    By Michael Wert

    "A book about the samurai from their origins to their disappearance. It dispels a lot of myths about the samurai one might encounter in popular culture.

  • Samurai
    By John Man

    The name 'Samurai' is synonymous with the ultimate warrior. With their elaborate armour, fierce swordsmanship and code of honour, the samurai have become iconic figures whose influence can still be felt today .

  • Samurai: A History
    By John Man

    In Samurai, celebrated author John Man provides a unique and captivating look at their true history, told through the life of one man: Saigo Takamori, known to many as "the last samurai.

  • Samurai: An Illustrated History
    By Mitsuo Kure

    This is a glamourised image of the class of paid professional warriors who evolved between the 10th and 17th centuries. Their colourful armour changed considerably over this period, but was...

  • Samurái: Una historia breve
    By Michael Wert

    Un texto que define el significado de lo que era ser un verdadero guerrero, es una carta supuestamente escrita a principios del siglo XV ... Te gusta vagabundear, la cetrería y la pesca con cormorán; disfrutas de una vida sin propósito.

  • Samurai: The World of the Warrior
    By Stephen Turnbull

    In this paperback edition, Stephen Turnbull, the world's leading authority on the samurai, goes beyond the battlefield to paint a picture of the samurai as they really were.

  • Samurai: The Heart of the Prophet
    By Jean-François Di Giorgio

    Takeo has finally achieved his dream; he has left behind the darkness of his past and become a Samurai.

  • Samurai: Warlords of Japan
    By Patricia A. Dawson

    CHAPTER ONE THE SAMURAI WARRIORS OF JAPAN Samurai, in the Japanese language, means “those who serve.” The term was first used to describe ... They were full-time soldiers who only trained to fight. These powerful fighters would be an ...

  • Samurai
    By Kathleen Duey, Duey

    The Time Soldiers travel back in time to eighteenth-century Japan to the city of Edo and decide to help an elderly samurai who tells them about a helmet with a mysterious jade stone lost in battle when he was young.

  • Samurai: The World of the Warrior
    By Stephen Turnbull

    ... Tadamori 144 Taira Tomomori 34 Takajô castle, siege of (1578) 106-8 Takamatsu castle gate 128 siege of (1582) 76-7, 79-80 Takatenjin castle 60 Takeda family ashigaru 18 at Nagashino (1575) 97-8, 115-16, 122 navy 153 Takeda Katsuyori ...

  • Samurai: An Encyclopedia of Japan's Cultured Warriors
    By Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Ph.D.

    Nagashino,. Battle. of. (1575). The military forces of Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543– 1616) ... the Battle of Nagashino (Nagashino no tatakai), a conflict that took place on June 29, 1575, near Nagashino Castle on ...

  • Samurai: An Illustrated History
    By Mitsuo Kure

    This book of Japanese history traces the story of a unique historical phenomenon: a period of 700 years--equivalent to the entire stretch of Western history between the reigns of the Crusader king Richard the Lionhearted and of Queen ...

  • Samurai: Japan's Noble Servant-Warriors
    By Blake Hoena

    "In graphic novel format, tells several tales of prominent samurai warriors from history and describes the training, weapons, armor, and battle tactics used by them."--

  • Samurai
    By Adrienne Lee

    Ninja. Fierce Fighters. Chicago: Raintree, 2010. Malam, John. You Wouldn't Want to Be a Ninja Warrior!: A Secret Job That's Your Destiny. New York: Franklin Watts, 2011. McDaniel, Sean. Ninja. Torque: History's Greatest Warriors.

  • Samurai: The Code of the Warrior
    By Thomas Louis, Tommy Ito

    This book explores the spirit, body, and minds of these sublime paladins who long ago passed into legend, but still live on today"--Back cover.