For more than 700 years, the Samurai ruled Japan, and their history and that of the nation are inseparably intertwined. Both unfold with the help of a brilliant text and some 300 line drawings, photographs, and maps. Follow their rise between the 9th and 11th centuries AD, their participation in over six hundred years of civil war, and their role-shift from knights on horseback to peacemaking administrators. Understand bushido, the complex code of conduct they lived by, and finally their decline and disappearance. A ...
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For more than 700 years, the Samurai ruled Japan, and their history and that of the nation are inseparably intertwined. Both unfold with the help of a brilliant text and some 300 line drawings, photographs, and maps. Follow their rise between the 9th and 11th centuries AD, their participation in over six hundred years of civil war, and their role-shift from knights on horseback to peacemaking administrators. Understand bushido, the complex code of conduct they lived by, and finally their decline and disappearance. A thrilling saga.
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