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作成日:2017/11/29 00:49:16 JST最終更新日:2017/11/29 06:02:51 JST
RUBRO HISTORIA
TITULO Samurai (An Illustrated History) (★)
AUTOR Mitsuo Kure
EDITORIAL Tuttle
ISBN 978-4-8053-1344-2
IDIOMA INGLES
CODIGO INTERNO HA-0171
NOTA (★)(´HA-0138´es mismo libro.)(1.´Samurai : An Illustrated History´traces the story of a unique historical phenomenon : a period of 700 years -equivalent to the entire stretch of Western history between the reigns of the Crusader king Richard the Lionhearted and of Queen Victoria at the height of the British Empire- during which an enclosed civilization was dominated by a single warrior caste. From the 12th to the 19th centuries the history of Japan was effectively the history of the samurai -the class of professional fighting men. At first they were no more than lowly soldiery employed by the court aristocracy of Kyoto, but the growing power of the provincial warrior clans soon enabled them to brush aside the executive power of the imperial court and to form their own parallel military government. Though individual dynasties came and went in cycles of vigor and decadence, the dominance of the samurai as a class proved uniquely resilient. Through centuries of warfare, rebellion, and treachery, through invasion and overseas expeditions, the ever-shifting alliances of samurai families struggled relentlessly for land and power. The great warrior clans were founded by ruthless adventurers, rose to extend over provinces and whole regions of the country, and fell in utter ruin. At last, from the bloodbath of the Sengoku Jidai -´the age of battles´beginning in the late 15th century- there emerged three extraordinary leaders who pursued the vision of unifying Japan under a single ruler : Oda Nobunaga, his lieutenant and successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and finally Tokugawa Ieyasu, who fought, plotted, and butchered his way to the ultimate prize. Early in the 17th century the victorious Tokugawa shoguns took the deliberate decision to isolate Japan completely ; and until U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry anchored off their coast nearly 250 years later the extraordinary medieval world of the samurai was preserved as if in amber. Mitsuo Kure´s account ends with the painful birth of modern Japan under the stimulus of that shocking encounter, which finally destroyed the institutions created by the samurai shoguns. The historical narrative is supported by explanations of samurai armor, weapons, fortifications, tactics, and customs, and illustrated with nearly 800 fascinating color photographs, maps, and sketches, including ancient scroll paintings and surviving suits of armor preserved for centuries in Japanese shrines. 2.Dr. Mitsuo Kure graduated from medical school in 1972 and became a surgeon in Tokyo, where he makes his home. A plastic modeler and figure painter since he was twelve years old, he began an exhaustive research into the history and ways of the samurai to find needed details for samurai figure painting. He published a photographic reenactment book in 1999 as part of the Europa Militaria series, which led to this more extensive work.)

   

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