Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan
Book Details
Author(s)
Karl Friday
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0804726965
ISBN-13
9780804726962
Availability
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Sales Rank
#1,008,651
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
Tracing the evolution of state military institutions from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, this book challenges much of the received wisdom of Western scholarship on the origins and early development of warriors in Japan.
