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Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan by Karl F. Friday

Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan

Karl F. Friday

284 pages 1992

2 editions

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Tracing the evolution of state military institutions from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, this book challenges much of the received wisdom of Western scholarship on the origins and early development of warriors in Japan.

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