

Samurai
A Very Short Introduction
Author: Michael Wert
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
Unabridged: 3 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 12/14/2021
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Asian & Pacific Islander History, Military History
Synopsis
Much as they capture the modern imagination, the samurai commanded influence over the politics, arts, philosophy, and religion of their own time, and ultimately controlled Japan from the fourteenth century until their demise in the mid-nineteenth century. On and off the battlefield, their story is one of adventures and intrigues, heroics and misdeeds, unlikely victories and devastating defeats. This book traces the samurai throughout this history, exploring their roles in watershed events such as Japan's invasions of Korea at the close of the sixteenth century and the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877. Coming alive in these accounts are the samurai, both famed and ordinary, who shaped Japanese history.