University of Hawaii Press, 2000. — 481 p. The political influence of temples in premodern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations--where rowdy monks and shrine servants brought holy symbols to the capital to exert pressure on courtiers--has traditionally been condemned and is poorly understood. In an impressive examination of this intriguing aspect of medieval...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2018. — 336 p. La apasionante historia de los señores de la guerra: Shogunatos, samurais y ronin, desde el periodo Heian, las guerras con Mongolia, Corea y China hasta el comercio con Europa, la Revolución Meiji y el fin de la sociedad feudal. Una crónica real de mil años convulsos llenos de guerras civiles, rebeliones y luchas intestinas. Breve historia del...
Routledge, 2019. — 216 p. The western Japanese city of Hagi is the town in Japan which has preserved the greatest level of Tokugawa period (1600-1868) urban and architectural fabric. As such it is a major tourist destination for both Japanese and non-Japanese visitors. The city is also very important historically in that it was the capital of the feudal daimyo domain – Chōshū –...
Renaissance Books, 2020. — 144 p. With the addition of a contextualized introduction, here is the first annotated translation of the eighth- century clan history Tōshi Kaden or the History of the Fujiwara House. Hitherto, scholars have focused on the more famous eighth-century imperial histories Nihon Shoki and Kojiki, but other sources such as the History of the Fujiwara House...
University of California Press, 1997. — 238 p. How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan's "Warring States" period between 1467 and 1568 destroyed the medieval order and exposed the framework of an early modern polity. Mary Elizabeth Berry investigates the experience of upheaval in Kyoto during this time.Using diaries and urban records...
Harvard University Asia Center, 1989. — 293 p. — (Harvard East Asian Monographs 146). Here is the first full-length biography in English of the most important political figure in premodern Japan. Hideyoshi--peasant turned general, military genius, and imperial regent of Japan--is the subject of an immense legendary literature. He is best known for the conquest of Japan's...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. — 364 p. — (Harvard East Asian monographs 376). During the Heian period (794–1185), the sacred mountain Kinpusen, literally the “Peak of Gold,” came to cultural prominence as a pilgrimage destination for the most powerful men in Japan―the Fujiwara regents and the retired emperors. Real and Imagined depicts their one-hundred-kilometer trek...
Reprint edition — Routledge, 2006. — 240 p. Traces the development of the samurai, both in the way they regarded themselves and their role in society. First published 1994 by Routledge. Acknowledgements The Formation of a Warrior Nobility Bushi Attitudes Towards the Traditional Religions Duty, Privilege and Loyalty: Religious and Practical Concerns Swords and Sword-fighting...
University of Hawaii Press, 1994. — 457 p. Winner of the 1990 American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Prize. A great book for anyone interested in the Heian period of Japan.
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 511 p. Richard Bowring traces the development of Japanese religious thought and practice from the introduction of writing to the point at which medieval attitudes gave way to a distinctive pre-modern culture, a change that brought an end to the dominance of religious institutions. A wide range of approaches using the resources of art,...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2020. — 337 p. — (Harvard East Asian Monographs 433). — ISBN 978-067424781 9. Reflecting the Past is the first English-language study to address the role of historiography in medieval Japan, an age at the time widely believed to be one of irreversible decline. Drawing on a decade of research, including work with medieval manuscripts, it analyzes...
University of Southern California, 2012. — 384 p. This dissertation examines the social factors involved in the practices of observational astrology (Ch. tianwen, Jp. tenmon) and calendrical astronomy (Ch. lifa, Jp. rekiho) at the Japanese court. The production and monopolization of astrological and astronomical knowledge had, from the time of the Han Dynasty in China, been...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. — 638 p. Japan's Sengoku jidai (“Warring States Period”) was a time of crisis and upheaval, a chaotic epoch when the relatively low-born rural military class of “bushi” (samurai warriors) succeeded in overthrowing their social superiors in the court throughout much of the country. Into this tumultuous age of constant warfare...
Tuttle Publishing, 2009. — 256 p. The ancient warrior culture of Japan produced a sophisticated martial philosophy that we know today as Bushido—the Way of the Warrior. In Samurai Wisdom, author Thomas Cleary provides five important new translations of major Japanese works on Bushido. The writings of the scholar Yamaga Soko and his disciples are among the clearest expositions we...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 496 p. - Provides a new understanding of premodern Japan, showing that it was not an isolated agricultural state, but rather one economically based on mining and trade - Recounts a process of urbanization beginning in the fourteenth century - Reveals that East Asia had integrated trading networks long before the arrival of European explorers -...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 496 p. - Provides a new understanding of premodern Japan, showing that it was not an isolated agricultural state, but rather one economically based on mining and trade - Recounts a process of urbanization beginning in the fourteenth century - Reveals that East Asia had integrated trading networks long before the arrival of European explorers -...
Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2013. — 160 p., ills. The first English translation of 17th-century Japanese Samurai works which have never been out of print in Japan since printing was invented. Enter the world of 17th-century Japanese warfare and the warrior elite, the Samurai. This is a collection of three major texts, published in English translation for the first time....
The History Press, 2018. — 224 p. Japan has often been thought of as a closed country, but before the country was closed in 1635 many travellers from the West were able to experience its unique traditions and culture. Their accounts speak of legends of powerful dragons and devils, tales of the revered emperor and the protocol surrounding him, following complex etiquette in...
Watkins Publishing, 2022. — 446 p. This is the book on bushido, the much-cited but widely misrepresented samurai code of honour. Drawing on authentic historical texts, it is a detailed and accurate exploration of medieval life in Japan and the samurai, a must-have for anyone with a love of martial arts or Japanese history. This is the go-to volume on bushido ("the way of the...
Watkins Publishing, 2022. — 446 p. This is the book on bushido, the much-cited but widely misrepresented samurai code of honour. Drawing on authentic historical texts, it is a detailed and accurate exploration of medieval life in Japan and the samurai, a must-have for anyone with a love of martial arts or Japanese history. This is the go-to volume on bushido ("the way of the...
TOYO Press, 2019. — 360 p. This is the true story of the eventful history of the famous Yagyū clan - a story that began during the early heady days of the Genkō Rebellion (1331–33), when emperor Go-Daigo sought to restore power to the throne with the support of the Yagyū and other loyal clans. It follows their campaigns on behalf of Go-Daigo's southern court during the Northern...
TOYO Press, 2019. — 360 p. This is the true story of the eventful history of the famous Yagyū clan - a story that began during the early heady days of the Genkō Rebellion (1331–33), when emperor Go-Daigo sought to restore power to the throne with the support of the Yagyū and other loyal clans. It follows their campaigns on behalf of Go-Daigo's southern court during the Northern...
Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2009. — 381 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8248-3204-9 Смерть и жизнь после смерти в японском буддизме. Сборник. Исследования о представлениях о смерти и жизни после смерти в японском буддизме. Mukaeko: Practice for the Deathbed. Sarah Johanna Horton. With the Help of ‘‘Good Friends’’: Deathbed Ritual. Practices in Early Medieval Japan. Jacqueline I....
Brill, 2014. — 444 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 45). In Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan, Torquil Duthie examines the literary representation of the late seventh-century Yamato court as a realm of "all under heaven". Through close readings of the early volumes of the poetic anthology Man’yōshū (c. eighth century) and the last volumes of the...
University of Hawaii Press, 1987. — 356 p. Japan in the Sixteenth Century. The City of Sakai and Urban Autonomy. Patterns of Momoyama History. A Visualization of Eitokus Lost Paintings at Azuchi Castle. Joha a Sixteenth Century Poet of Linked Verse. Song and the Performing Arts. Music Cultures of Momoyama Japan. From Its Origins to Sen no Rikyu. Hideyoshi the Bountiful Minister.
University of Hawaii Press, 1987. — 356 p. Japan in the Sixteenth Century. The City of Sakai and Urban Autonomy. Patterns of Momoyama History. A Visualization of Eitokus Lost Paintings at Azuchi Castle. Joha a Sixteenth Century Poet of Linked Verse. Song and the Performing Arts. Music Cultures of Momoyama Japan. From Its Origins to Sen no Rikyu. Hideyoshi the Bountiful Minister.
Brill, 2011. — 530 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 36). Shinchou Kouki, the work translated here into English under the title The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga, is the most important source on the career of one of the best known figures in all of Japanese history, Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), the first of the Three Heroes who unified Japan after a century of fragmentation and...
Harvard University Press, 1995. — 486 p. "In a government, military matters are the essential thing," said Japan's "Heavenly Warrior," the Emperor Temmu, in 684. Heavenly Warriors traces in detail the evolutionary development of weaponry, horsemanship, military organization, and tactics from Japan's early conflicts with Korea up to the full-blown system of the samurai. Enhanced by...
University of Michigan Center Asian Studies, 2009. — 148 p. For centuries, scholars have wondered what daily life was like for the common people of Japan, especially for long bygone eras such as the ancient age (700–1150). Using the discipline of historical demography, William Wayne Farris shows that for most of this era, Japan’s overall population hardly grew at all, hovering...
University of Hawai Press, 2006. — 372 p. This volume charts a course through never-before-surveyed historical territory: Japan’s medieval population, a topic so challenging that neither Japanese nor foreign scholars have investigated it in a comprehensive way. And yet, demography is an invaluable approach to the past because it provides a way—often the only way—to study the mass...
Stanford University Press, 2010. — 180 p. Ambitious and challenging, this book applies comparative political theories to the history of war and state-formation in Japan's violent medieval centuries. Essays by six historians richly depict the complex dynamic that resists easy generalization, while the editors' interpretations suggest new angles for exploring this exciting period...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 336 p. This is the first book-length study in any language of Jōkei (1155-1213), a prominent Buddhist cleric of the Hossō (Yogācāra) school, whose life bridged the momentous transition from Heian (794-1185) to Kamakura (1185-1333) Japan. "Kamakura Buddhism" has drawn notable scholarly attention, largely because it marks the emergence of new...
Allen and Unwin, 1972. — 272 p. From the tenth century onwards the emperors of Japan gradually lost power. The local lords or clan chiefs waged ceaseless war against each other, while the court, wholly steeped in Chinese culture, seemed to take no further interest in the affairs of the nation. In 1191 the Minamoto clan mastered the disturbances and finally imposed its rule....
Allen and Unwin, 1972. — 272 p. From the tenth century onwards the emperors of Japan gradually lost power. The local lords or clan chiefs waged ceaseless war against each other, while the court, wholly steeped in Chinese culture, seemed to take no further interest in the affairs of the nation. In 1191 the Minamoto clan mastered the disturbances and finally imposed its rule. Hard...
Routledge, New York, 2004. - 256 p. ISBN: 0-203-39216-7. В книге "Самураи, военное дело и государство в раннесредневековой Японии" исследуются материальные, организационные, идеологические основы военного дела в Японии в периоды Хэйан и Камакура, частично Намбокутё (примерно с конца 8-го по 14 век н.э.). Выделяется четыре типа военных действий в данный период: 1) «справедливая...
Routledge, 2012. — 498 p. — ISBN10: 9780813344836 / ISBN13: 978-0813344836. Japan Emerging provides a comprehensive survey of Japan from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Incorporating the latest scholarship and methodology, leading authorities writing specifically for this volume outline and explore the main developments in Japanese life through ancient, classical,...
Routledge, 2017. — 433 p. — (Routledge Handbooks). — ISBN10: 0415707021, 13 978-0415707022. Scholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in terms of both sophistication and volume. A new approach has developed, marked by a higher reliance on primary documents, a shift away from the history of elites to broader explorations of social...
Stanford University Press, 1996. — 225 p. Tracing the evolution of state military institutions from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, this book challenges much of the received wisdom of Western scholarship on the origins and early development of medieval warriors in Japan.
London: Routledge, 2003. - 236 p. (Warfare and History) Karl Friday, an internationally recognised authority on Japanese warriors, provides the first comprehensive study of the topic to be published in English. This work incorporates nearly twenty years of on-going research and draws on both new readings of primary sources and the most recent secondary scholarship. It overturns...
Turner Publishing Company, 2007. — 240 p. A portrait of Japan's first significant samurai leader and his world. Was samurai warrior Taira Masakado a quixotic megalomaniac or a hero swept up by events beyond his control? Did he really declare himself to be the "New Emperor"? Did he suffer divine retribution for his ego and ambition? Filled with insurrections, tribal uprisings,...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2011. — 160 p. Los guerreros más temibles de la antigüedad, unos soldados perfectamente entrenados en el arte de la guerra, con un código de honor que los hacía casi invencibles. Si existe una historia bélica por antonomasia esa es la del Japón medieval. Dominado por unos soldados legendarios, los samuráis, la unificación de Japón es una de las etapas más...
Brill, 2018. — 436 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 63). Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan, edited by Karen M. Gerhart, is a multidisciplinary examination of rituals featuring women, in which significant attention is paid to objects produced for and utilized in these rites as a lens through which larger cultural concerns, such as gender politics, the...
University of Hawaii Press, 2011. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8248-6017-2 Confluences of Medicine is the first book-length exploration in English of issues of medicine and society in premodern Japan. This multifaceted study weaves a rich tapestry of Buddhist healing practices, Chinese medical knowledge, Asian pharmaceuticals, and Islamic formulas as it elucidates their appropriation...
University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. — 586 р. — ISBN 978-082-4875-466 Landed estates (shōen) produced much of the material wealth supporting all levels of late classical and medieval Japanese society. During the tenth through sixteenth centuries, estates served as sites of de facto government, trade network nodes, developing agricultural technology, and centers of religious...
University of Hawaii Press, 2002. — 525 p. Ryogen and Mount Hiei focuses on the transformation of the Tendai School from a small and impoverished group of monks in the early ninth century to its emergence as the most powerful and influential school of Japanese Buddhism in the last half of the tenth century--a position it would maintain throughout the medieval period. This is...
Harvard University Press, 1990. — 226 p. — (Harvard East Asian Monographs 99). The Muromachi Period in Japanese History. The Ashikaga Shogun In Muromachi Japan. Muromachi Economy And Bakufu Income. The Bakufu System: Bureaucracy and Administration. The Bakufu System: Military Organization. The Muromachi Bakufu in Comparative Perspective. A Concluding Noteon Feudalism and...
University of California Press, 1977. — 375 p. The Muromachi age may well emerge in the eyes of historians as one of the most seminal periods in Japanese history. So concluded the participants in the 1973 Conference on Japan. The proceedings, as edited for this volume, reveal this new interpretation of the Muromachi age (1334-1573), which was among the most neglected and...
Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1999. — 446 p. This important study of Japan in premodern times, embracing a span of nearly thirteen centuries, is directed toward the illumination of some important elements of continuity in Japanese history. It is an effort to explain through the detailed analysis of a microcosm--the small province of Bizen--the fundamental...
Princeton University Press, 1981. — 416 p. These papers by leading specialists on sixteenth-century Japan explore Japan's transition from medieval (Chusei) to early modern (Kinsei) society. During this time, regional lords (daimyo) first battled for local autonomy and then for national supremacy.
Stanford University Press, 1988. — 304 p. A collection of essays tackles a neglected field of Japan's history. Court and Shôen in Heian Japan . John W. Hall. Kyoto As Historical Background. G. Cameron Hurst III. The Structure of the Heian Court: Some Thoughts on the Nature of “ Familial Authority” in Heian Japan. G. Cameron Hurst III. The Development of the Insei: A Problem in...
Leete's Island Books, 2019. — 992 p. This is the story of a few men who valued justice more than life. They were members of the large Corps of Samurai in the feudal domain of Akô in western Japan. But when their lord committed the crime of drawing his sword within the castle of the Shogun, the law decreed that he should be sentenced to death, that his heir would not inherit the...
Conquistador Press, 2014. — 682 p. In May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158,800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan on Korea’s southern tip. His objective: to conquer Korea, then China, and then the whole of Asia. The resulting seven years of fighting, known in Korea as imjin waeran, the “Imjin invasion,” after the year of the water dragon in which it...
University of Hawaii Press, 2007. — 450 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-8248-3013-7 Mikael Adolphson, Edward Kamens and Stacie Matsumoto, editors. Япония эпохи Хэйан: центры и периферия. Коллективный труд ведущих западных специалистов по периоду Хэйан (конец 8 – конец 12 вв.) посвящен изучению политической системы Японии: роли женщин в политике, отношениям императорского двора и провинций...
Tuttle Publishing, 2011. — 128 p. The Samurai Mind is a collection of five seminal Japanese texts that convey the essence of traditional samurai philosophy and ethic from very different, but complementary points of view. These texts range from the ferocious to the esoteric—with their common thread being the importance of mastering one's own mind as the key to overcoming opponents....
McFarland, 2015. — 300 p. — ISBN 978-0786-49961-8. Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945. Less well known is that the city was founded by Europeans, Jesuit missionaries who arrived in the area in the second half of the 16th century. The Jesuits had come to convert...
Edited and translated by Adriana Boscaro. — Tokyo: Sophia University, 1975. — xviii, 113, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates: illustrations. — (Monumenta Nipponica monographs №54). Toyotomi Hideyoshi born Kinoshita Tōkichirō, later called Hashiba Hideyoshi, was a Japanese samurai and daimyo of the late Sengoku period regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.
Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2019. — 170 р. — (Japan research monograph ; 19). — ISBN 9781557291851. Sōgi and Bashō are the two most famous practitioners of Japanese linked verse, an art that captivated poetic minds for centuries. Their deaths were of commensurate importance to their literary communities, and two of their preeminent...
Amber Books, 2014. — 224 p. During Japan’s Warring States period, centuries of strife had left the country divided and leaderless. Those who filled the power vacuum were the daimyo, warlords who ruled over the clans and provinces of Japan. Serving their daimyo, the samurai were the ultimate warriors at a time when military prowess won out over hereditary power and position. The...
Amber Books, 2014. — 224 p. During Japan’s Warring States period, centuries of strife had left the country divided and leaderless. Those who filled the power vacuum were the daimyo, warlords who ruled over the clans and provinces of Japan. Serving their daimyo, the samurai were the ultimate warriors at a time when military prowess won out over hereditary power and position. The...
The History Press, 2014. — 160 p. A complete, accessible account of the Japanese samurai - from warlords and women warriors to famous battles and ritual suicides. The true nature of the samurai warrior is an elusive and endlessly fascinating enigma for those in the west. From their inauspicious beginnings as barbarian-subduing soldiers, the samurai lived according to a code...
Columbia University Press, 2014. — 264 p. A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next forty years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her family. Some aspects of the author's life and text seem curiously modern. She married at age...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 306 p. — ISBN 978-1-4039-8152-3. This is a multi-generational political history of the Hatoyamas, a family that has participated at the highest levels of Japan's parliamentary government from its inception in the late 1800s. The Hatoyama family is one of the most prominent political families in modern Japanese government. It has produced six members...
Translated by William Scott Wilson. — Tuttle Publishing, 2023. — 192 p. Samurai warrior leaders had to deal with grim conditions of life, death and survival. But such men were not simply rough uneducated fighters: they often personified the Far Eastern ideal of balancing cultural awareness and artistic expertise with high martial abilities. Their sayings, precepts and the...
Translated by William Scott Wilson. — Tuttle Publishing, 2023. — 192 p. Samurai warrior leaders had to deal with grim conditions of life, death and survival. But such men were not simply rough uneducated fighters: they often personified the Far Eastern ideal of balancing cultural awareness and artistic expertise with high martial abilities. Their sayings, precepts and the...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2021. — 382 p. — (Harvard East Asian Monographs 445). Uncertain Powers is an original and much-needed analysis of female leadership in medieval Japan. In challenging current scholarship by exploring the important political and economic roles of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Japanese royal women, Sachiko Kawai questions the traditional view of...
Columbia University Press, 2003. — 238 p. — ISBN 978-0-231-13057-8 Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated by his wife. But his influence on the cultural life of Japan was unparalleled. According to Donald Keene, Yoshimasa was the only shogun to leave a lasting heritage...
University of Hawaii Press, 2013. — 280 p. Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women explores the world of thirteenth-century Japan through the life of a prolific noblewoman known as Nun Abutsu (1225-1283). Abutsu crossed gender and genre barriers by writing the first career guide for Japanese noblewomen, the first female-authored poetry treatise, and the first poetic travelogue by a...
Worcester: Worcester Polytechnic Institute , 2012. — 108 p. This project is a part of the Historical Evolutions of Materials in Arms and Armors Interactive Qualifying Project series. The primary purpose of this project is to examine the evolution of the weapons and armors of the samurai warrior class of Japan, in terms of design, materials and manufacturing process, within the...
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2002. — 272 p. The year 1543 marked the beginning of a new global consciousness in Japan with the arrival of shipwrecked Portuguese merchants on Tanegashima Island in Southern Japan. Other Portuguese rapidly followed and Japan became aware of a world beyond India. The Portuguese brought with them the musket, which was quickly copied and began to...
Tuttle Publishing, 2020. — 288 p. A History of the Samurai tells the complete story of Japan's legendary warrior class from beginning to end - an epic tale of intrigue, bloodshed and bravery that is central to an understanding of the Japanese character and of Japanese history. It describes in detail the core Samurai philosophy of Bushido - "the way of the warrior" - a complex...
Stanford University Press, 1995. — 344 p. The Kamakura period, 1180-1333, is known as the era of Japan's first warrior government. As the essays in this book show, however, the period was notable for the coexistence of two centers of authority, the Bakufu military government at Kamakura and the civilian court in Kyoto, with the newer warrior government gradually gaining ascendancy.
Stanford University Press, 1995. — 358 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8047-2532-3 The Kamakura period, 1180-1333, is known as the era of Japan's first warrior government. As the essays in this book show, however, the period was notable for the coexistence of two centers of authority, the Bakufu military government at Kamakura and the civilian court in Kyoto, with the newer warrior government...
Yale University Press, 1974. — 269 p. — (Yale historical publications. Miscellany 103). Table Of Contents: Contents Preface Introduction 1 Ascendancy Of The Taira 2 Warrior Development In Eastern Japan 3 The Establishment Of Kamakura Power 4 Shugo And Jitö Before 1185 5 Kamakura-Kyoto Relations And The J1tö Shiki 6 The Extension Of Kamakura Authority After 1185: The Bakufu's...
Tokyo: The Kyo-Bun-Kwan, 1920. — 233 p. Stories illustrating Bushido, the Moral Principles of the Japanese Knighthood. A warrior burns incense into his helmet when he is determined to die on the field.
State University of New York Press, 2006. — 268 p. — ISBN 0-7914-6827-5 In the entry for the fourth day of the seventh month in the year Kencho\ 4 [1252], during the reign of Emperor Gofukakusa, the Azuma kagami (Mirror of the East, ca. 1270)2notes: “The sky was clear. At noon the wife of Yoshikage, Superintendent of Akita Castle, had an easy delivery of a girl...She was called...
Third Impression. — London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd, 1925. — 667 p. From the Origins to the Arrival of the Portuguese in 1642 A.D. With Maps by Isoh Yamagata.
University of Hawaii Press, 2008. — 274 p. — ISBN 978-0-8248-3117-2. In the Edo period (1600–1868), status- and gender-based expectations largely defined a person’s place and identity in society. The wayfarers of the time, however, discovered that travel provided the opportunity to escape from the confines of the everyday. Cultured travelers of the seventeenth and eighteenth...
Bellona, 2002. — 48 p. In September 1561, the two armies engaged in the “Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima.” Kenshin, weary of the sparring with Shingen, resolved to destroy his archrival in one last decisive battle, and marched his army of 18,000 toward the northwestern periphery of Takeda territory. His objective was Kaizu Castle, which controlled Takeda communications north onto...
Bellona, 2004. — 64 p. The battle of Kurikara, also known as the battle of Tonamiyama, was a crucial engagement in Japan's Genpei War, in this battle the tide of the war turned in the favour of the Minamoto clan. Minamoto no Yoshinaka, commander of a contingent of warriors from Shinano Province, invaded Taira lands in Shinano, Echigo, Etchū, Kaga and Echizen. The war was put on...
Kegan Paul Library, 2005. — 234 p. These diaries are a remarkable record of court life in eleventh century Japan. They are the personal accounts of three young girls, Sarashina, daughter of a Governor of Kazusa, Murasaki Shikibu, and Izumi Shikibu, daughter of a Governor of Echizen.
Translated and Annotated by Xavid "Kiho" Pretzer. Cambridge: Tlie Academy of the Four Directions, 2015. — 314 p. — ISBN 978-0-692-37740-6 This book is divided into four parts. Tlie first part, which immediately follows, is O-umajirushi in Context. It discusses the historic and literary conlext in which the book was created. It uses a blue thumb index tab (on the page edge) and...
University of Hawaii Press, 2018. — 212 p. This volume offers the first in-depth analysis in English of an understudied phenomenon in medieval Japanese history: the so-called akutō (literally, “evil bands”). Employing chronicles, laws, and legal documents from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, as well as recent Japanese scholarship, Morten Oxenboell examines the...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 270 р. (Series: Cornell East Asia series; 211) — ISBN 9781501761638 This volume brings together the work of an interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the impact of war and war memory during Japan’s “samurai age,” the period of time lasting from the establishment of the fi rst shogunate as a result of the Genpei War (1180–1185) through...
University of Hawaii Press, 2006. — 218 p. "Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions" investigates some of the most historically important political and social issues raised by the Genpei War (1180-1185). This epic civil conflict, which ushered in Japan's age of the warriors, is most famously articulated in the monumental narrative "Heike monogatari" ("The Tale of the Heike")....
Passés Composés, 2020. — 288 p. À l'automne 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu, l'un des plus fascinants personnages de l'histoire du Japon, sort vainqueur de la plus grande bataille de samouraïs jamais livrée. L'enjeu est de taille, rien de moins que pacifier et unifier l'empire sous sa bannière. Avant de parvenir à engranger les dividendes de la paix, il aura pourtant fallu tout risquer...
Stanford University Press, 1998. — 359 p. The Clear Mirror (Masukagami) is an account of Japanese history from 1185 to 1333 by an anonymous author, almost certainly a court noble writing around the third quarter of the fourteenth century. During this time, the military government at Kamakura controlled the country, maintaining the emperor with his court at Kyoto as symbolic...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 257 р. — ISBN 978-1-316-51306-4 The Japanese provincial city of Ichijōdani was destroyed in the civil wars of the late sixteenth century but never rebuilt. Archaeological exca-vations have since uncovered the most detailed late medieval urban site in the country. Drawing on analysis of specif i c excavated objects and decades of...
Brill Academic Pub., 2015. — 340 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 50). In From Outcasts to Emperors, David Quinter illuminates the Shingon Ritsu movement founded by the charismatic monk Eison (1201-1290) at Saidaiji in Nara, Japan. The book's focus on Eison and his disciples' involvement in the cult of Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva reveals their innovative synthesis of Shingon...
University of Hawaii Press, 2017. — 404 p. The Ōjōyōshū, written by the monk Genshin (942–1017), is one of the most important texts in the history of Japanese religions. It is the first comprehensive guide to the doctrine and practice of Pure Land Buddhism written in Japan and so played a pivotal role in establishing this form of Buddhism in the country. In Genshin’s Ōjōyōshū...
Pen and Sword History, 2024. — 224 p. From the demon-killing Minamoto no Yorimitsu to the immortal poet Ono no Komachi, find out about the fascinating world of Japanese warriors and folk-heroes. Japanese mythology is filled with stories of larger-than-life characters that shaped the landscape of Japan. They are the folk heroes who slayed monsters, fought in epic battles and...
Pen and Sword History, 2024. — 224 p. From the demon-killing Minamoto no Yorimitsu to the immortal poet Ono no Komachi, find out about the fascinating world of Japanese warriors and folk-heroes. Japanese mythology is filled with stories of larger-than-life characters that shaped the landscape of Japan. They are the folk heroes who slayed monsters, fought in epic battles and...
University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. — 240 р. — ISBN 978-0-8248-3986-4 In this pioneering study of the shifting status of the emperor within court society and the relationship between the state and the Buddhist community during the Heian period (794–1185), Asuka Sango details the complex ways in which the emperor and other elite ruling groups employed Buddhist ritual to...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1961. — 486 p. — ISBN 978-0-8047-0525-7. This is a straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization from 1334 to 1615 by the author of Japan: A Short Cultural History. While complete in itself, it is also the first volume of a three-volume work which will be the first large-scale, comprehensive history of Japan. Taken as...
University of Hawaii Press, 2021. — 293 p. — ISBN 978-082-4887889 Even a fleeting glimpse of Mount Fuji’s snow-capped peak emerging from the clouds in the distance evokes the reverence it has commanded in Japan from ancient times. Long considered sacred, during the medieval era the mountain evolved from a venue for solitary ascetics into a well-regulated pilgrimage site. With...
University of Hawaii Press, 2021. — 254 p. In medieval Japan (14th-16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom they received a premier education in Buddhist scriptures, poetry, music, and dance. When the boys reached adolescence, some underwent coming-of-age rites, others entered the...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. — 275 p. Framed by the decline of the Heian aristocracy in the late 1100s and the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 1600s, Japan’s medieval era was a chaotic period of diffuse political power and frequent military strife. This instability prevented central authorities from regulating trade, issuing currency, enforcing contracts,...
Brill, 2013. — 212 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library, v. 44). The Genpei War of 1180-1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors. How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts? This book argues that political authority is made visible in the...
U of M Center For Japanese Studies, 2014. — 345 p. — (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies 76). Lords of the Sea revises our understanding of the epic political, economic, and cultural transformations of Japan’s late medieval period (ca. 1300–1600) by shifting the conventional land-based analytical framework to one centered on the perspectives of seafarers who, though...
Columbia University Press, 1960. — 400 р. Western scholars of Japanese history have tended to focus their research on periods of rapid change such as the sixteenth century and the second half of the nineteenth century. But few have examined the turbulent flowering of the late twelfth century, in which Japanese culture was fundamentally altered by the military rule that...
Routledge, 2014. — 576 p. — ISBN: 978-1-9033-5001-0 THERE is scarcely a country, Greece and Italy excepted, on which a greater number of books continues to be written, year by year, than the bow-shaped series of volcanic islands, emerald forests and garden-like fields that faces the eastern edge of the Eurasian continent. If in spite of this, Japan has retained the reputation...
University of Hawaii Press, 2024. — 345 p. The Ryukyu islands have been inhabited by humans for over 30,000 years. Their modern population, however, did not come from stone-age ancestors, nor did distinctive forms of Ryukyuan culture, such as sacred groves or stone-walled castles, emerge from within the islands. Instead, different groups of people lived in the Ryukyu islands at...
University of Hawaii Press, 2019. — 320 p. Why do Ryukyu’s official histories locate the origins of its early dynastic founders in Iheya and Izena, small islands located northwest of Okinawa? Why did the Ming court extend favorable trade terms to Ryukyuan rulers? What was the nature of Okinawa’s enigmatic principalities, Sannan, Chūzan, and Hokuzan? When and how did the Ryukyu...
Flammarion, 2017. — 380 p. Que savons-nous vraiment des samouraïs, ces guerriers si chers à nos imaginaires occidentaux? L'historien Pierre-François Souyri, fin connaisseur du Japon où il a longtemps vécu, raconte leur longue histoire, enrichie ici de récits anciens qui ont nourri leur geste. La légende de ces terribles guerriers, où un sens aigu de l'honneur le dispute souvent...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. — 332 p. — (Harvard East Asian monographs 361). A Sense of Place examines the vast Kanto region as a locus of cultural identity and an object of familial attachment during the political and military turmoil of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in Japan. Through analysis of memoirs, letters, chronicles, poetry, travelogues,...
University of Hawaii Press, 2014. — 256 p. — ISBN 978-0-8248-3879-9 Kyoto was Japan’s political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century, it was also among the world’s largest cities and, as the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, it was a place where the political, artistic, and religious currents of...
V&R unipress, 2023. — 217 p. — (Studien zu Macht und Herrschaft 18). In early medieval Japan, the political constitution displays increasingly complex features: both old and new elites gather around two centers of power, the imperial court and the shogunate. At the same time, multi-layered rights over property and income develop. The proliferation of conflicts between and...
London: Chiswick Press, 1893. — 96 p. Томпсон П. Сильванус. Магическое зеркало в старой Японии (на англ. яз.) Монография посвящена исследованию значений и роли зеркала в классической японской культуре. Содержит иллюстрации и фото. Night's Robe to-night with Orient Sorcery gleams - Say: "Magick Mirrour!" murmur: "Old Japan!" Each Sound's a Spell, each Word a Talisman, And we but...
Stanford University Press, 1992. — 312 р. — ISBN 0-8047-I94I-1 THE VAST MAJORITY of the population of medieval Japan were neither aristocrats nor warriors but ordinary people, to whom English-language works have paid scant attention. Even though our knowledge of elite institutions has advanced considerably in the recent past, we know little about how commoners organized their...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. — 335 p. — (Harvard East Asian monographs 288). During the sengoku era--the period of warring provinces in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Japan--warlords vied for supremacy and sought to expand their influence over the realm. Powerful religious institutions also asserted their military might by calling upon their adherents to do battle...
Blandford Press, 1987. — 168 p. Looks at the development of the samurai in Japan from the Heian period to the Edo period and shows and describes the samurai's elaborate armor
New York, NY : Thames & Hudson Inc., 2013. — 208 p. ; 126 ills., 15 in col. So you think you’d like to be a samurai? It’s 1615 and the samurai, Japan’s elite fighting class, are at the zenith of their powers. Trained in every manner of combat, from sword fighting and archery to karate and jujitsu, the samurai warrior is the emperor’s last line of defense against the lewd and...
Frontline Books, 2021. — 192 p. The Lost Samurai reveals the greatest untold story of Japan’s legendary warrior class, which is that for almost a hundred years Japanese samurai were employed as mercenaries in the service of the kings of Siam, Cambodia, Burma, Spain and Portugal, as well as by the directors of the Dutch East India Company. The Japanese samurai were used in...
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 224 p. The samurai were celebrated warriors, but they were also deeply spiritual men whose religious beliefs sustained and inspired their forays into battle. In this entirely original work, Stephen Turnbull, a leading authority on Japanese history and author of more than 50 books, reveals the soul of the samurai in a thoughtful exploration of the...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 248 p. From lowly attendants (samurai literally means ‘those who serve’) to members one of the world’s most powerful military organizations, the samurai underwent a progression of changes to reach a preeminent position in Japanese society and culture. Even their eventual eclipse did not diminish their image as elite warriors, and they would live on in...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 248 p. From lowly attendants (samurai literally means ‘those who serve’) to members one of the world’s most powerful military organizations, the samurai underwent a progression of changes to reach a preeminent position in Japanese society and culture. Even their eventual eclipse did not diminish their image as elite warriors, and they would live on in...
Cassell & Co, 2000. — 320 p. Brave, invincible warriors, fighting sword in hand against overwhelming odds. Those were the Samurai. In this comprehensive, enthralling, illustration-filled look at their history, personalities, strategies, costume, and campaign you'll find every detail of their armor and weaponry, as well as information on the Samurai army's development, its...
Tuttle Publishing, 2014. — 208 p. This Samurai history, filled with dozens of woodblock prints and photographs, is an authoritative text on Japan's most fearsome warriors. Through fascinating stories and full-color historical images that show the samurai in mesmerizing detail, military historian Stephen Turnbull provides an invaluable guide to an enduring legacy. The earliest...
Tuttle Publishing, 2014. — 208 p. This Samurai history, filled with dozens of woodblock prints and photographs, is an authoritative text on Japan's most fearsome warriors. Through fascinating stories and full-color historical images that show the samurai in mesmerizing detail, military historian Stephen Turnbull provides an invaluable guide to an enduring legacy. The earliest...
Routledge, 2005. — 318 p. First published in 1977, The Samurai has long since become a standard work of reference. It continues to be the most authoritative work on samurai life and warfare published outside Japan. Set against the background of Japan's social and political history, the book records the rise and rise of Japan's extraordinary warrior class from earliest times to...
Routledge, 2005. — 318 p. First published in 1977, The Samurai has long since become a standard work of reference. It continues to be the most authoritative work on samurai life and warfare published outside Japan. Set against the background of Japan's social and political history, the book records the rise and rise of Japan's extraordinary warrior class from earliest times to...
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 144 p. — (Essential Histories). Fully illustrated with colour maps and 50 images, this is an accessible introduction to the most violent, turbulent, cruel and exciting chapter in Japanese history. In 1467 the Onin War ushered in a period of unparalleled conflict and rivalry in Japan that came to be called the Age of Warring States. In this book,...
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 144 p. — (Essential Histories). Fully illustrated with colour maps and 50 images, this is an accessible introduction to the most violent, turbulent, cruel and exciting chapter in Japanese history. In 1467 the Onin War ushered in a period of unparalleled conflict and rivalry in Japan that came to be called the Age of Warring States. In this book,...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 96 p. ― (Osprey Essential Histories 046). — ISBN 9781841764801. In 1467 the Onin War ushered in a period of unrivalled conflict and rivalry in Japan that came to be called the Age of Warring States or Sengoku Jidai. In this book Stephen Turnbull offers a masterly exposition of the Sengoku Jidai, detailing the factors that led to Japan's disintegration...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 290 p. The fearless, elite warriors of medieval Japan were loyal comrades but deadly foes. Whether foot soldier, samurai or trained assassin, these men were driven by strict codes of honor and bound by deep allegiances of rank, family or religion. This book examines the military lives of four formidable warrior types, covering the samurai and the...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 290 p. — ISBN 1846032202. The fearless, elite warriors of medieval Japan were loyal comrades but deadly foes. Whether foot soldier, samurai or trained assassin, these men were driven by strict codes of honor and bound by deep allegiances of rank, family or religion. This book examines the military lives of four formidable warrior types, covering the...
Charlesbridge, Gareth Hinds, 2016. — 236 p. Minamoto Yoshitsune (1159-1189) should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family—and lost. His father was...
Columbia University Press, 2024. — 336 p. The war between the Heike and Genji clans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is among the most compelling and significant moments in Japan’s history, immortalized in The Tale of the Heike . Beyond the events recorded in this canonical text, the conflicts of the surrounding years are crucial to medieval Japanese culture and history....
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 472 p. In 1614 the shogunate prohibited Christianity amidst rumors of foreign plots to conquer Japan. But more than the fear of armed invasions, it was the ideological threat - or "spiritual conquest" - that the Edo shogunate feared the most. This book explores the encounter of Christianity and premodern Japan in the wider context of global and...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 472 p. In 1614 the shogunate prohibited Christianity amidst rumors of foreign plots to conquer Japan. But more than the fear of armed invasions, it was the ideological threat - or "spiritual conquest" - that the Edo shogunate feared the most. This book explores the encounter of Christianity and premodern Japan in the wider context of global and...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 472 p. In 1614 the shogunate prohibited Christianity amidst rumors of foreign plots to conquer Japan. But more than the fear of armed invasions, it was the ideological threat - or "spiritual conquest" - that the Edo shogunate feared the most. This book explores the encounter of Christianity and premodern Japan in the wider context of global and...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 472 p. In 1614 the shogunate prohibited Christianity amidst rumors of foreign plots to conquer Japan. But more than the fear of armed invasions, it was the ideological threat - or "spiritual conquest" - that the Edo shogunate feared the most. This book explores the encounter of Christianity and premodern Japan in the wider context of global and...
Brill, 2019. — 278 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 64). Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen offers a detailed look at a crucial yet sorely neglected figure in medieval Japan. It clarifies Musō’s far-reaching significance as a Buddhist leader, waka poet, landscape designer, and political figure. In doing so, it sheds light on how elite Zen culture was...
Brill, 2008. — 370 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 29). This is the first work to deal comprehensively with the historical and physical aspects of the Nagaoka palace and capital, which were constructed in the eighth century at the order of Kanmu Tenno, but abruptly abandoned after only ten years. New research and the information yielded by decades of excavation made...
Routledge, 2017. — 356 p. The majority of studies on the agricultural history of Japan have focused on the public administration of land and production, and rice, the principal source of revenue, has received the most attention. However, while this cereal has clearly played a decisive role in the public economy of the Japanese State, it has not had a predominant place in...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2020. — 320 p. — (Harvard East Asian Monographs 427). Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), there was more to worry about than a good yarn. The health of the community was at stake. Flowering Tales is the first extensive literary study...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 128 p. The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike to the kabuki retellings of the 47 Ronin....
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 128 p. The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike to the kabuki retellings of the 47 Ronin....
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5017-04 4 3-7 The reign of the Tokugawa shoguns was a time of statebuilding and cultural transformation, but it was also a period of ikki: peasant rebellion. James W. White reconstructs the pattern of social conflict in early modern Japan, both among common people and between the populace and the government. Ikki is the...
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1916. — [xxii], 277 p., with illustrations and maps.
" Ghenkō ," as the Japanese call "the Mongol invasion" — a momentous national event which occurred in the last two decades of the thirteenth century — is, in my opinion, one of the most important facts which should be known by our friends who take an interest in the evolution of the Japanese power....
СПб.: Северо-Запад Пресс, 2002. — 688 с. — (Золотая серия японской литературы). — ISBN: 5-93699-015-X. Японские самурайские сказания (гунки) повествуют о междуусобных войнах в Японии XII-XIV веков. Они родились из рассказов бродячих монахов (бива-хоси), которые под напевы лютни декламировали леденящие кровь истории о столкновениях несметных армий, о поединках героев, о массовых...
СПб.: Гиперион, 1999. — 176 с. — (Литературные памятники Древней Японии). — ISBN: 5-89332-017-4. В 1156 г. три крупных феодальных дома (Фудзивара, Тайра и Минамото) столкнулись между собою в борьбе за верховную власть. Четвёртой стороной борьбы были крупные буддийские монастыри. Все участники располагали собственными воинскими формированиями (самурайские дружины у феодальных...
М.: РГГУ, 2009. — 435 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7281-1085-9 Составленное в форме хрестоматии исследование периода Хэйан (794-1185), который по праву считается временем становления самобытной национальной культуры. Основано на переводах текстов, являющихся образцами как деловой документации, так и изящной словесности. Снабжено богатым справочным аппаратом. Для специалистов и широкого...
Под ред. И.С. Смирнова; сост., введ., пер. с др.-япон. и коммент. М.В. Грачева. — М.: РГГУ, 2009. — 432 с. — (Orientalia et Classica: Труды Института восточных культур и античности. Выпуск XXIV). ISBN: 978-5-7281-1085-9 Составленное в форме хрестоматии исследование периода Хэйан (794—1185), который по праву считается временем становления самобытной национальной культуры....
Под ред. И.С. Смирнова; сост., введ., пер. с др.-япон. и коммент. М.В. Грачева. — М.: РГГУ, 2009. — 432 с. — (Orientalia et Classica: Труды Института восточных культур и античности. Выпуск XXIV). — ISBN 978-5-7281-1085-9. Составленное в форме хрестоматии исследование периода Хэйан (794—1185), который по праву считается временем становления самобытной национальной культуры....
Под ред. И.С. Смирнова; сост., введ., пер. с др.-япон. и коммент. М.В. Грачева. — М.: РГГУ, 2009. — 432 с. — (Orientalia et Classica: Труды Института восточных культур и античности. Выпуск XXIV). — ISBN 978-5-7281-1085-9. Составленное в форме хрестоматии исследование периода Хэйан (794—1185), который по праву считается временем становления самобытной национальной культуры....
Под ред. И.С. Смирнова; сост., введ., пер. с др.-япон. и коммент. М.В. Грачева. — М.: РГГУ, 2009. — 432 с. — (Orientalia et Classica: Труды Института восточных культур и античности. Выпуск XXIV). — ISBN 978-5-7281-1085-9. Составленное в форме хрестоматии исследование периода Хэйан (794—1185), который по праву считается временем становления самобытной национальной культуры....
М.: Вече, 2011. — 464 с. — (Библиотека мировой истории). — ISBN: 978-5-9533-3130-2. Перевод с английского языка Артюхов А.М. Deal William Е. Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan Oxford University Press, 2007 Настоящая книга представляет собой введение в историю японского Средневековья и начала Нового времени (1185–1868). Военные правители и религиозные вожди,...
М.: Вече, 2011. – 464 с. – (Серия: Библиотека мировой истории)
Настоящая книга представляет собой введение в историю японского Средневековья и начала Нового времени (1185–1868). Военные правители и религиозные вожди, богатые торговцы и непокорные крестьяне, культурные новаторы и другие люди формировали Японию Средневековья и Нового времени. Их дела и идеи легли в основу того,...
СПб.: Гиперион, 2012. — 474 с. — (Литературные памятники Древней Японии, вып. IX) — ISBN: 978-5-89332-192-0. В книге представлены переводы пяти гунки-моногатари — сказаний о мятежах и битвах. «Записи о Масакадо», «Сказание о земле Муцу», «Записи о Трёхлетней войне в Осю», «Повесть о смуте годов Хогэн» и «Записи о смуте годов Дзёкю» описывают важнейшие события военной истории...
Перевод с японского, предисловие В.А. Онищенко. — СПб.: Гиперион, 2012. — 474 с. — (Литературные памятники Древней Японии, вып. IX). — ISBN: 978-5-89332-192-0. В книге представлены переводы пяти гунки-моногатари — сказаний о мятежах и битвах. «Записи о Масакадо», «Сказание о земле Муцу», «Записи о Трёхлетней войне в Осю», «Повесть о смуте годов Хогэн» и «Записи о смуте годов...
Пер. с яп., вступ. ст., коммент. и исслед. В.А. Онищенко. — СПб.: Гиперион, 2011. — 287 с. — (Литературные памятники Древней Японии). — ISBN: 978-89332-168-5. Памятник жанра «военных повестей» («гунки-моногатари») "Повесть о смуте годов Хэйдзи" («Хэйдзи-моногатари», XIIIв.) описывает один из мятежей, потрясших Японию в XIIв. – мятеж годов Хэйдзи (1159г.). Эта повесть...
Пер. с яп., пред. В.А. Онищенко. — СПб.: Гиперион, 2012. — 480 с. — (Литературные памятники Древней Японии). — ISBN: 978-5-89332-192-0. В книге представлены переводы пяти гунки-моногатари - сказаний о мятежах и битвах. «Записи о Масакадо», «Сказание о земле Муцу», «Записи о Трёхлетней войне в Осю», «Повесть о смуте годов Хогэн» и «Записи о смуте годов Дзёкю» описывают важнейшие...
Москва: Стилсервис, 2002. — 60 с. Монография выдающегося российского историка‑востоковеда Александра Николаевича Игнатовича (Институт стран Азии и Африки при МГУ) посвящена японской буддийской школе Нитирэн: история создания школы, ее доктринальный комплекс, жизнь и деятельность основателя школы — Нитирэн дайсёнин (1222—1282). Книга предназначена для специалистов по истории...
АСТ, 2010. — 218 c. — ISBN13: 978-5-17-067737-5 Книга содержит подробный рассказ о конных самураях, лучниках, пикинерах, командующих, оружейниках и артиллеристах, а также осадных техниках. Она включает более 300 цветных иллюстраций, фотографий и карт, в т.ч. изображения оружия, обмундирования, снаряжения, схемы сражений и различные тактики наступления и обороны Японии эпохи...
Учебник представляет собой скорее мемуары, чем научный труд, скорее полемические заметки, чем историческое исследование. В отличие от многих работ в ней затронуты и темы, связанные с личной жизнью автора и с его личными взглядами на Японию, на советско-японские и российско-японские отношения - взглядами, заметно отличающимися от того, что пишут большинство современников. Автор...
Москва : Русайнс, 2019. — 378 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4365-3633-0 Сэкигахара (1600) — крупнейшая и важнейшая битва самураев, перевернувшая ход истории Японии. Причины битвы, ее итоги, обстоятельства самого сражения окружены множеством политических мифов и фальсификаций. Эта книга — первое за пределами Японии подробное исследование войны 1600 года, основанное на фактах и документах....
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М.; СПб.: Рос. гос. б-ка: Летний сад, 1999. — 384 с.
Во второй том вошли комментарии, справочные и дополнительные материалы, которыми В. М. Мендрин сопроводил свой перевод труда Рай Дзё «Нихон гайси», известного в России как «Неофициальная история Японии». Кроме того, в книгу включена его работа «Сегун и сэйи тайсегун. Бакуфу (Лингвистические и исторические очерки)». Ее...
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М.: Либроком, 2011. — 208 с. — (Академия фундаментальных исследований. История). — ISBN: 978-5-397-02013-8. Настоящая книга содержит очерки, в которых на основе оригинальных источников и исследований японских авторов рассматриваются важнейшие проблемы социально-экономической истории, а также идеология, политика, духовная и материальная культура, обычаи и быт основных классов...
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Пер. с англ. Д. Воронина, Ю. Гольдберга. — М.: КоЛибри, Азбука-Аттикус, 2017. — 592 с., ил. — ISBN: 978-5-389-12699-2. Авторы этого фундаментального исследования, известные американские специалисты по восточным единоборствам, рассказывают об истории воинственных самураев и о практических, технических и стратегических аспектах боевых искусств, о культуре, этике и философии...
Пер. с англ. Д. Воронина, Ю. Гольдберга. — М.: КоЛибри, Азбука-Аттикус, 2017. — 592 с., ил. — ISBN: 978-5-389-12699-2. Авторы этого фундаментального исследования, известные американские специалисты по восточным единоборствам, рассказывают об истории воинственных самураев и о практических, технических и стратегических аспектах боевых искусств, о культуре, этике и философии...
Пер. со старояп., предисл. и коммент. В.Н. Горегляд. — СПб.: Гиперион, 1999. — 176 с. — (Литературные памятники Древней Японии). — ISBN: 5-89332-017-4. В 1156 г. три крупных феодальных дома (Фудзивара, Тайра и Минамото) столкнулись между собой в борьбе за верховную власть. Четвёртой стороной борьбы были крупные буддийские монастыри. Все участники располагали собственными...
Пер. с яп., вступ. ст. и коммент. Е. Ю. Варшавской. — СПб.: Гиперион, 2013. — 207 с.: ил., [52] с. цв. вкл. — ISBN: 978-5-89332-202-6. Книга знакомит читателя с одним из наиболее значительных произведений Утагава Куниёси (1797-1861), выдающегося художника традиционной японской гравюры укиё-э и непревзойденного мастера воинского жанра муся-э: серией «Тайхэйки эйю дэн» —...
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Перевод В. Яковлева. — АСТ, Астрель, ОГИЗ, 2005. — 256 с. — ISBN: 5-17-031697-6, 5-271-11990-4, 1-85648-703-2. Средневековую Японию раздирали внутренние междоусобицы и конфликты. В этой книге автор рассказывает о мужественных и искусных воинах той эпохи, прослеживает путь становления класса самураев, с VII века воины-одиночки постепенно объединились в мощную касту...
Перевод, вступ. статья и коммент. В. Н. Горегляда. — СПб.: Северо-Запад Пресс, 2002. — 688 с. — (Золотая серия японской литературы). Японские самурайские сказания (гунки) повествуют о междуусобных войнах в Японии XII-XIV веков. Они родились из рассказов бродячих монахов (бива-хоси), которые под напевы лютни декламировали леденящие кровь истории о столкновениях несметных армий,...
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