In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firearms the Japanese had ever seen: simple matchlock muskets called arquebuses. They proved a decisive addition to the Japanese armoury, as for centuries the samurai had fought only with bow, sword and spear. In 1575, during the Battle of Nagashino, one of the greatest original thinkers in the history of samurai, Oda Nobunaga, arranged his arquebusiers in ranks three deep behind a palisade and proceeded, quite literally, to blow his opponent’s cavalry to pieces, marking the beginning of a new era in Japanese military history.
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Packed with specially commissioned artwork, maps and diagrams, the Men-at-Arms series is an unrivalled illustrated reference on the history, organisation, uniforms and equipment of the world's military forces, past and present.
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Stephen Turnbull is the world's leading English language authority on medieval Japan and the samurai. He has travelled extensively in the far east, particularly in Japan and Korea and is the author of The Samurai - A Military History.
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Filled with basic information about the samurai. A very good introduction to these great warriors. Covers such things as weapons, armor, military tatics, their culture, etc. The author also have several other books about the samuria that go into deeper detail.
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The Japanese samurai is usually regarded as being an individual warrior, proud and aloof, to whom personal honour and prowess were of the utmost importance, and who was unwilling to let his achievements be submerged by co-ordinating them with the efforts o Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Momoyama Period, Takeda Shingen, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Uesugi Kenshin, Date Masamune, Maeda Toshiie, Korean War, Takeda Katsuyori, Honda Tadakatsu, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi New!
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Momoyama Period, Takeda Shingen, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Uesugi Kenshin, Date Masamune, Maeda Toshiie, Korean War, Takeda Katsuyori, Honda Tadakatsu, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi New!
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- Early Samurai AD 200-1500 (Elite) by Anthony Bryant in Back Matter
- Sekigahara 1600: The Final Struggle For Power (Campaign) by Anthony Bryant in Back Matter
- Samurai Heraldry (Elite) by Stephen Turnbull in Back Matter
- Nagashino 1575: Slaughter at the barricades (Campaign) by Stephen Turnbull in Back Matter
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