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Warfare in Japan from the fourth to the nineteenth century has caused much controversy among Western military and political historians. This volume assembles key articles written by specialists in the field on military organization, the social context of war, battle action, weapons and martial arts. The focus is on the transformation of patterns of warfare that arose from endogenous as well as exogenous factors.
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Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Introduction
PART I FEUDALISM IN JAPAN
1 John Whitney Hall (1962), 'Feudalism in Japan - A Reassessment', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 5, pp. 15-51.
PART II THE CHANGING SOCIO CULTURAL CONTEXT OF MILITARY ORGANIZATION
2 Karl Friday (1988), 'Teeth and Claws: Provincial Warriors and the Heian Court', Monumenta Nipponica, 43, pp. 153-85.
3 Susumu Ishii (1985), 'The Formation of Bushi Bands (Bushidan)', Acta Asiatica, 49, pp. 1-14.
4 Hitomi Tonomura (1997), 'Women and Inheritance in Japan's Early Warrior Society', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 32, pp. 592-623.
5 Shลsaku Takagi (1985), "'Hideyoshi's Peace" and the Transformation of the Bushi Class', Acta Asiatica, 49, pp. 46-77.
6 Kozo Yamamura (1971), 'The Increasing Poverty of the Samurai in Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1868', Journal of Economic History', 31, pp. 378-406.
PART III AESTHETICS AND ETHICS OF WAR
7 G. Cameron Hurst, III (1993), 'From Heiho to Bugei: The Emergence of the Martial Arts in Tokugawa Japan', Journal of Asian Martial Arts, 2, pp. 41-51.
8 Karl F. Friday (1995), 'Kabala in Motion: Kata & Pattern Practice in the Traditional Bugei', Journal of Asian Martial Arts, 4, pp. 27-39.
PART IV CHANGING PATTERNS OF WARFARE
9 Walter Edwards (1983), 'Event and Process in the Founding of Japan: The Horserider Theory in Archaeological Perspective', Journal of Japanese Studies, 9, pp. 265-95.
10 Reinier ฮ. Hesselink (1991), 'The Introduction of the Art of Mounted Archery into Japan', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Fourth Series, 6, pp. 27โ47.
11 W.R. Wilson (1968), 'The Sea Battle of Dannoura', American Neptune, 28, pp. 206-22.
12 Kenneth Dean Butler (1969), 'The Heike Monogatari and the Japanese Warrior Ethic', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 29, pp. 93-108.
13 Thomas Conlan (1999), 'The Nature of Warfare in Fourteenth-Century Japan: The Record of Nomoto Tomoyuki', Journal of Japanese Studies, 25, pp. 299-330.
14 Michael P. Birt (1985), 'Samurai in Passage: The Transformation ofthe Sixteenth-Century Kanto', Journal of Japanese Studies, 11, pp. 369-99.
15 S.R. Turnbull (1988), '"Shorthand of the Samurai". The Use of Heraldry in the Armies of Sixteenth-Century Japan', Review. Japan Society, pp. 43-55.
PART V WEAPONS
16 ฮ. Gilbertson (1895), 'Japanese Archery and Archers', Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society of London, 4, pp. 112-26.
17 Myra Shackley (1987), 'Arms and Men: 14th Century Japanese Swordsmanship Illustrated by Skeletons from Zaimokuza, near Kamakura, Japan', World Archaeology, 18, pp. 247-54.
18 Stephen Turnbull (1998), 'Chinese Influence on Japanese Siege Warfare', Royal Armories Journal, 3, pp. 74-88.
19 P.M. Clayburn (1965), 'Japanese Castles', History Today, 15, pp. 20-28.
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