Good evening,
I am sharing an interesting article about female samurai that I thought this list may find interesting.
https://daily.jstor.org/onna-bugeisha-female-samurai-warriors-feudal-japan/?utm_term=Onna-...
Top of the season to you all,
Mary Hearns-Ayodele
H-Asia (with apologies for cross-posting),
H-Japan Members (with apologies for cross-posting),
I am pleased to announce that my new book, The Samurai Encyclopedia. A Comprehensive Guide to Japan's Elite Warrior Class, has just been published in paperback by Tuttle. It is 449 pages in length and has 125 archival photos, including 70 in color, and is listed for $24.99.
Posted on behalf of Thomas Conlan
Colleagues:
I am happy to inform you all of the publication of a new sourcebook, Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877.
It includes excerpts of the excellent translated work of Royall Tyler, Luke Roberts, Teruko Craig, Joyce Ackroyd, William Ritchie Wilson, William Scott Wilson, Marius Jansen, Carl Steenstrup and others, as well as many sources translated here for the first time. I direct you to look at the table of contents, attached below, and an interview about the project (weblink below):
Machiko Ōgimachi. In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan. Translated by G. G. Rowley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 368 pp. $34.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-231-55316-2; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-19951-3.
Reviewed by Laura Nenzi (University of Tennessee) Published on H-Japan (April, 2022) Commissioned by Martha Chaiklin
Art and Commerce at Play: The Illustrated Book in Early Modern Japan
7-8pm, Thursday 10 March 2022
Free event open to all. Hosted online via Zoom Webinars – BOOK HERE
Romulus Hillsborough. Samurai Assassins: "Dark Murder" and the Meiji Restoration, 1853-1868. Jefferson: McFarland, 2017. 224 pp. $19.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4766-2800-4; $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6880-2.
Reviewed by John E. Van Sant (University of Alabama-Birmingham) Published on H-Japan (December, 2017) Commissioned by Martha Chaiklin
