Table of Contents

Volume 1 The age of war: The samurai tradition and Japan's military revolution, Stephen Turnbull; from soldier to samurai, Wayne Ferris; valorous butchers - the art of war during the giolden age of the samurai, Karl Friday; the way of the bow and arrow - the Japanese warrior in Konjaku Monogatari, William Ritchie Wilson; Yoshitsune, the boy hero of Japan, arthur Diosy; legends of Heike Villages - the fugitive warrior as ancestor, Carmen Blacker; the Shokyu war amd the political rise of the warrior, John S. Brownlee; arms and the men, 14th century Japanese swordmanship illustrated by skeletons from Zaimokusa, Myra Shackley; samurai in passage - the transformation of the 16th-century Kanto, Michael P. Birt; the impact of firearms on Japanese warfare 1543-98, Delmer M. Brown; Hideyoshi and the Satsuma clan in the 16th century, J.H. Gubbins; tea and counsel - the political role of Sen Rikyu, Beatrice M. Bodart; Chinese influence of Japanese seige warfare, Stephen Turnbull. Volume 2 The Age of Peace: the Imagawa letter, a Muromachi warrior's code of conduct which becomes a Tokugawa schoolbook, Carl Steenstrup; the castle town and Japan's modern urbanization, John Hall Whitney; on maritime enterprise in Japan, H.A.C. Bonar; studies of trajectory in Japan before the days of Dutch learning, Kiyonobu Itakura and Reiko Itakura; a remarkable armour, Ian Bottomley; the feudal masions of Yedo, Thomas R.H. McClatchie; adoption and samurai mobility in tokugawa Japan, Ray A. Moore; the vendetta or legal revenge in Japan, J. Dautremer; women in feudal Japan, Joyce Ackroyd; arts of war in times of peace - archery in Honcho Bugei Shoden, John M. Rogers; Nippon-to - an introduction to old swords of Japan, Edgar C. Bain; the Satsuma rebellion of 1877 - from Kagoshima through the seige of Kumamoto castle, James H. Buck; death and honour in Japan, Louis Allen.