Let the battles begin! Way of the Warrior takes readers into the fray with history's most valiant and infamous soldiers for a close look at warriors through the ages.

Learn all about the life of a Samurai, the Bushido Code, and more! Curriculum Connections: - Presents fighters in historical context, including the culture, mores, and socioeconomic climate of the time - Action verbs, vivid descriptions, and other reading cues are used in the text to stimulate the reader, particularly the experiential and/or kinesthetic learner (differentiated instruction)

Samurai Warriors illustrates the truth about the fighting men that are iconic in Japanese culture. Comprehensive historical text on the samurai separate myth from fact in chapters detailing their history, from formation to decline, their political role and social structure, and their warfare. Photographs, artwork, and maps illustrate their fighting style and strategy, and depict battles, weapons, and armor. For a period of over fifty years, the samurai helped rule Japan, but these fighter still represent the power and prestige of the warrior.

Describes the training, weapons, clothing, and responsibilities of these legendary warriors from Japan.

Daimyo of 1867 Samurai Warlords of Shogun Japan Daimyo of 1867 provides a comprehensive catalog of samurai warlords in feudal Japan. Included are detailed information on every one of the 277 daimyo clans in the year 1867, towards the end of the samurai era. Every daimyo is listed with the image of the mon "family crest," han "fief" name, revenue size, rank at the Shogun's castle in Edo, prior ancestry, and other clan information. Many clan domain descriptions are embellished with photos of their castles, history of notable ancestors, and information about any branch families. Maps of castles and their surroundings are provided wherever possible. The information is organized as an handbook for creating more realistic backgrounds for role-playing games, boardgames, miniatures games, and computer games. It is also useful for those writing historical novels, screenplays, graphic novels, comic books, anim, and other creative works. Background information includes geography, history, major roads, social structure, religion, monetary system, and government structure. A gamers guide is provided with suggestions for scenarios, descriptions of martial arts training, ronin, vengeance, the use of ninja, and the naming of a daimyo's son at a coming-of-age ceremony. There is also a special section with lists of samurai-themed games. Among the daimyo you will find: - Asano Naganori, the daimyo whose seppuku led to the revenge of the 47 ronin Kudo Suketsun, who sparked the famous vendetta of the Soga Brothers, which took 18 years to complete - Ooka Tadasuk, a minor judge with legendary wisdom, who eventually became daimyo - Yagyu Munenori, the Shogun's sensei for swordsmanship, a hatamoto who became daimyo - Oda Nobunaga, a minor daimyo who began the final unification of Japan after a century of civil war, and who is the inspiration for the video game series Nobunaga's Ambition - Tokugawa Ieyasu, a minor daimyo who became Shogun, and established a dynasty that would rule the Land of the Rising Sun for two-and-a-half centuries, until the end of the samurai era. Profusely illuminated with hundreds of photos and images of maps, woodcut prints, and paintings. Suggested for mature readers.

Learn all about the life of a Samurai, the Bushido Code, and more! Curriculum Connections: - Presents fighters in historical context, including the culture, mores, and socioeconomic climate of the time - Action verbs, vivid descriptions, and other reading cues are used in the text to stimulate the reader, particularly the experiential and/or kinesthetic learner (differentiated instruction)

During the sixteenth century Japan's medieval period was left behind when the samurai experienced a military revolution that involved the introduction of firearms and the mobilization of large armies who fought from stone castles. The history of this violent time is perfectly encapsulated in the campaigns waged by five generations of one outstanding warlord family: the Hōjō of Odawara Castle. In 1487 their founder attacked a wooden stockade using bows and arrows; in 1590 his great-great grandson defended a huge castle using cannon. Successive Hōjō warlords were the contemporaries of famous samurai like Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin and Oda Nobunaga, whose armies they fought and defeated, but their end came at the hands of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: the "Napoleon of Japan", who defeated the Hōjō in a massive siege of their mighty castle of Odawara This book tells the complete story of a century of warfare for the first time using Japanese sources never before translated. It is spectacularly illustrated with pictures of armor and weapons and uniquely commissioned artwork. Detailed and authoritative accounts of the campaigns show the Hōjō samurai using every trick in the book from sea raiding to ninja attacks. There are also many surprises such as the use of dogs as messengers and revelation that the final siege of Odawara in 1590 was no pushover when the Hōjō dynasty came to its glorious end and their last patriarch committed hara-kiri. Japan and samurai warfare were changed forever.