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SAMURAI, WARFARE AND THE STATE IN EARLY MEDIEVAL JAPAN
By Karl F. Friday
Routledge, 2004.
ISBN 0-415-32962-0 (hbk)
ISBN 0-415-32963-9 (pbk)
Description
Warfare in early medieval Japan was intimately linked to social
structure. Examining the causes and conduct of military operations
informs and enhances our understanding of the tenth to fourteenth
centuries - the formative age of the samurai.
Karl F. Friday analyzes Heian-, Kamakura- and Nambokusho period warfare from five thematic angles. He examines the principles that justified armed conflict, the mechanisms used to raise and deploy armed forces, the weapons available to early medieval warriors, the means by which they obtained them, and the techniques and customs of battle.
Karl F. Friday
Author
Karl F. Friday Professor of Japanese history at the University
of Georgia. A specialist in classical and early medieval Japanese
history, Friday has also written widely on samurai culture and Japanese
warrior traditions.
Karl F. Friday has studied kenjutsu in Japan and holds menkyo
kaiden from Kashima-Shinryu.