Warriors of Japan as portrayed in the war tales
The war tales (gunki-mono) of Japan recount the stories of warriors and their battles from the tenth century, when a warrior class first emerged in the provinces of Japan, until the seventeenth century. A blend of history and fiction, the war tales are one of the most important sources of knowledge about Japan's premodern warriors
Libro a stampa, English, ©1994
University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, ©1994