Samurai armies, 1467-1649
The Sengku Jidai, or "age of Warring States', was the age of the samurai - the military aristocracy of Japan. Lasting from the outbreak of the Onin War in 1467 to the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate - the government of united Japan - in the early 17th century, it was a period of endemic warfare, when a lack of central authority led to constant struggles between the great families of Japan. A details account of the famous samurai armies, this title examines the complicated nature of family and clan that governed so much of their initial organization, an how their battlefields tactics developed over a series of major encounters such as Nagashino and Sekigahara. [back cover]
Print Book, English, 2008
Osprey, Oxford, 2008