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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (4): 433–444.
Published: 01 August 1960
..., the equalization of classes, and the establishment of a conscript army, the need for a hereditary military class ceased to exist. Certainly, the presence of a samurai class, numbering approximately 1,800,000, or 400,000 families, stranded in a society in process of divesting itself of all feudal fetters...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 5 (1): 5–27.
Published: 01 November 1945
... responsible for Perry's success. They made even the most valiant samurai realize the inferiority of his medieval equipment to these huge and fast men-o'-war. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1945 1945 1 Sansom G. B. , Japan, A short cultural history . New York...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (2): 415–417.
Published: 01 May 1987
...Earl Jackson, Jr Pagoda, Skull, and Samurai: Three Stories by Rohan Koda . Translated by Chieko Irie Mulhern . Rutland, Vt., and Tokyo : Charles E. Tuttle Company , 1985 . 280 pp. Introduction, Afterword, Map, Historical Notes. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 31 (1): 237.
Published: 01 November 1971
... Samurai . By H. Paul Varley with Ivan and Nobuko Morris . New York : Delacorte Press , 1971 . 135 pp. Notes, Chronology, Index, Map. $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS imaginative attempt to explain policy changes in the ia6o's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 164–165.
Published: 01 February 1987
...Lawrence Olson Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage . By Haru Matsukata Reischauer . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1986 . xx, 371 pp. Illustrations, Map, Figures, Notes, Index. $20. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 164 JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 43 (1): 170–171.
Published: 01 November 1983
...Robert Leutner Tales of Samurai Honor . By Ihara Saikaku . Translated by Caryl Ann Callahan . Tokyo : Monumenta Nipponica , 1982 . 156 pp. Introduction, Preface, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $4. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 170 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 410–411.
Published: 01 February 1986
...George E. Moore American Samurai: Captain L. L. Janes and Japan . By F. C. Notehelfer . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1985 . xiv, 386 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography of Works Cited, Index. $30. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 410...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 840–841.
Published: 01 August 1985
...W. Dean Kinzley The Self-Made Man in Meiji Japanese Thought: From Samurai to Salary Man . By Earl H. Kinmonth . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1981 . xi, 385 pp. Illustrations, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $28.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (3): 617–632.
Published: 01 May 1970
...Ray A. Moore Abstracts Historians have overstated the role of adoption as a channel of upward social mobility for poor but bright young samurai in Tokugawa Japan. An analysis of family histories and public service records of four han shows that adoption helped to preserve both samurai lineages...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 171–172.
Published: 01 February 1989
...Dennis Lishka Death Was His Koan: The Samurai-Zen of Suzuki Shōsan. . By Winston King . Berkeley, Calif .: Asian Humanities Press , 1986 , 372 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 171 loyalty, but several others reflect...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 170–171.
Published: 01 February 1989
...M. William Steele Musui's Story—The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai . By Katsu Kokichi . Translated by Teruko Craig . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1988 , 178 pp. $19.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 170 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 733–734.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Thomas W. Burkman God's Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor . By Gordon W. Prange , with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon . Washington, D.C. : Brassey's , 1990 . $21.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 733 of artifacts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 839–840.
Published: 01 August 2016
... bushidō emphasized long-lost warrior values of fair play, quick mindedness, generosity, and thriftiness; he said nothing about loyalty or self-sacrifice, qualities that would become attached to bushidō during the Russo and Sino-Japanese wars. Inventing the Way of the Samurai is an exhaustive...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 904–906.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Joan R. Piggott The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel Taira Masakado . By Karl F. Friday . Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley , 2008 . xii , 220 pp. $24.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 In this excellent book written...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 691–721.
Published: 01 August 2010
... : Iwanami shoten . Takaaki Ikai . 2004 . “Shizoku hanran to Saigō densetsu” [Samurai rebellions and Saigō legends]. In Meiji ishin to bunmei kaika, Nihon no jidaishi [The Meiji Restoration and civilization and enlightenment: A history of Japan by period] , vol. 21 , ed. Masahito Matsuo...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 241–243.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of this book, which should be read by not only students of Japanese studies but also those interested in civil–military relations in modern states generally. Provincial Life and the Military in Imperial Japan: The Phantom Samurai . By Stewart Lone . Abington : Routledge , 2010 . xi, 162 pp. $130.00...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 805–812.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Aaron Skabelund Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan . By D. Colin Jaundrill . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2016 . xii, 229 pp. ISBN: 9781501703096 (cloth, also available as e-book). Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1090–1096.
Published: 01 November 2018
... a sideline to wealth and warrior power but actually an integral part of creating that power. “Samurai sociability” was the network, expertly deployed by Ieyasu, through which material culture was given, traded, and coerced away from collections to create relationships of debt and obligation among warriors...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (1): 198–199.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Gregory Smits The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori . By Mark Ravina . Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley and Sons , 2004 . xvi , 265 pp. $30.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 198 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 581–582.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Reinier H. Hesselink Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan . By Constantine N. Vaporis . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2008 . xii, 318 pp. $23.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011...