Daily Life in Japan at the time of the Samurai, 1185–1603 0049520067, 9780049520066

From the tenth century onwards the emperors of Japan gradually lost power. The local lords or clan chiefs waged ceaseles

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Daily Life in Japan at the time of the Samurai, 1185–1603
0049520067, 9780049520066

From the tenth century onwards the emperors of Japan gradually lost power. The local lords or clan chiefs waged ceaseles

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Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic a

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Ronald Jennings makes use of a 1572 survey of Cyprus by the Ottoman authorities to describe local village life and livin

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An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nut

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