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Japanese Studies
Samurai; Japanese Warriors
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DVDs at Bartle Library
- Seven samurai(DVD) PN1995.9.S24 S38 2006
- Tsubaki Sanjūrō Sanjuro(DVD) PN1997 .T783 1999
- Yojimbo The bodyguard(DVD) PN1997 .Y655 1999
- 切腹 Harakiri(DVD) (PN1997 .S475 2005
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- BushidōBushidō, (Japanese: “Way of the Warrior”) the code of conduct of the samurai, or bushi (warrior), class of premodern Japan. In the mid-19th century, however, the precepts of Bushidō were made the basis of ethical training for the whole society, with the emperor replacing the feudal lord, or daimyo, as the focus of loyalty and sacrifice.
- SeppukuSeppuku, (Japanese: “self-disembowelment”) also called hara-kiri, also spelled harakiri, the honourable method of taking one’s own life practiced by men of the samurai (military) class in feudal Japan. The word hara-kiri (literally, “belly-cutting”), though widely known to foreigners, is rarely used by Japanese, who prefer the term seppuku (written in Japanese with the same two Chinese characters but in reverse order).
- SamuriSamurai, member of the Japanese warrior caste. The term samurai was originally used to denote the aristocratic warriors (bushi), but it came to apply to all the members of the warrior class that rose to power in the 12th century and dominated the Japanese government until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
History of Samurai (DS827.S3 Bartle 4th floor)
- Samurai Tales byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781462900817Publication Date: 2011Samurai Tales is about the legendary men from the samurai class who fought for the helm of power in 19th century Japan. These are stories of courage, honor, fidelity, disgrace, fate, and destiny set in the bloody time of political change and social upheaval in the final years of the Shogun.
- Sumarai byCall Number: Oversize (*) -- DS827.S3 K87 2002ISBN: 0804832870Publication Date: 2002An Illustrated History brings the violent, tumultuous, and, at the same time, elegant world of the medieval Japanese samurai to life.
- Samurai Revolution byCall Number: DS881.9 .H55 2014ISBN: 9784805312353Samurai Revolution tells the fascinating story of Japan's transformation from a backward country of feudal lords and samurai under the control of the shogun into a modern industrialized nation under the unifying rule of the Emperor.
Knight and Samurai
- Knight and Samurai : actions and images of elite warriors in Europe and East Asia byCall Number: CR4513 .K65 2003
Samurai in Literatures
- Tales of the Samurai: stories illustrating bushido, the moral principles of the Japanese knighthood byCall Number: HathiTrust (online book)
- Tales of the Samurai byCall Number: PL793.O36 E5 1986ISBN: 0710302339First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
- Bamboo Sword and other samurai tales byCall Number: PL850.J5242 A2 2005ISBN: 4770030053The eight stories that comprise this collection were all written in the 1970s and 80s, yet vividly evoke early 17th-century Japan, when peace finally reigned after centuries of warfare.