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WHAT'S NEW?
Well, 2009 has been quite a year! My new books about castles, the invasion of Okinawa in 1609 and the Mongol Invasions of Japan are listed in my bookstore section.
In terms of future works, I went back to Japan during the summer to research the fascinating topic of samurai women. I was amazed how much material I was able to find about women warriors. You will have heard about Tomoe Gozen, but did you know that there were Japanese warrior nuns?
These pictures are of the wives of the Sato brothers, who fought beside Minamoto Yoshitsune, and Matsuhime, the daughter of Takeda Shingen.
I also visited Taiwan in connection with academic research about early relations between Japan and Taiwan. As a result of this work I will be publishing a paper next year in the Australian journal 'Japanese Studies' about the 'invasions that weren't'. These were the two disastrous expeditions by samurai to Taiwan in 1609 and 1616
I am also delighted that I will be one of the first to launch Osprey's new Weapons of War Series. This will be about the katana, the famous samurai sword.
Incidentally, my newly published book 'The Samurai Capture a King: Okinawa 1609', is, I believe, my most original book yet.
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KEY PAPERS ON THE SAMURAI TRADITION
Over the years I have made good use of hundreds of academic papers on samurai topics, some of which were written over a century ago. Most of these are almost impossible to get hold of unless you have access to specialised libraries.
Japan Library, who publish The Samurai: A Military History, have published my two-volume set of such articles, entitled Key Papers on the Samurai Tradition. I have chosen a fascinating collection of important and little-known works.
I must warn you, however, that it is very expensive indeed, because it is a limited printing aimed at the library market in Japan. It is actually £250.00... Here are the contents:Key Papers on the Samurai Tradition
Volume 1: the Age of War
Turnbull, Stephen >Introduction: The Samurai Tradition and Japan=s Military Revolution=
Farris, Wayne 1984 >From Soldier to Samurai= Transactions of the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan 28, 9 pp. 34-39.
Friday, Karl 1993 >Valorous butchers: The Art of War during the Golden Age of the Samurai= Japan Forum 5,1 pp. 1-19
Wilson, William Ritchie 1973 >The Way of the Bow and Arrow: The Japanese Warrior in Konjaku Monogatari= Monumenta Nipponica 28 pp.177-233
Diosy, Arthur 1911 >Yoshitsune, the boy hero of Japan= Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society of London 10, pp. 50-77.
Blacker, Carmen 1999 >Legends of Heike Villages: the Fugitive Warrior as Ancestor= Proceedings of the Japan Society 132 pp.5-12.
Brownlee, John S. 1969 >The Shky War and the Political Rise of the Warriors= Monumenta Nipponica 24, pp. 59-77.
Shackley, Myra 1986 >Arms and the Men: 14th century Japanese swordsmanship illustrated by skeletons from Zaimokusa, near Kamakura, Japan= World Archaeology 18,2 pp.247-254.
Birt, Michael P. 1985 >Samurai in Passage: The Transformation of the Sixteenth-Century Kant= Journal of Japanese Studies 11,2 pp. 369-399.
Brown, Delmer M. 1948 > The Impact of Firearms on Japanese Warfare, 1543-98' Far Eastern Quarterly 7, pp. 236-253.
Gubbins, J. H. 1880 >Hideyoshi and the Satsuma Clan in the Sixteenth Century= Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 8, pp. 92-143.
Bodart, Beatrice M. 1977 >Tea and Counsel: The Political Role of Sen Riky= Monumenta Nipponica 32, pp. 49-74.
Turnbull, Stephen 1998 >Chinese influence on Japanese siege warfare= Royal Armouries Yearbook 3 pp. 145-158.
Volume 2: the Age of Peace
Steenstrup, Carl 1973 >The Imagawa Letter. A Muromachi Warrior=s Code of Conduct which became a Tokugawa Schoolbook= Monumenta Nipponica 28, pp. 295-316.
Hall, John Whitney 1955 >The Castle Town and Japan=s Modern Urbanisation= Far Eastern Quarterly 15, pp. 37-56.
Bonar, H. A. C. 1887 >On Maritime Enterprise in Japan= Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 15, pp. 103-124.
Itakura, Kiyonobu and Itakura, Reiko 1962 >Studies of Trajectory in Japan before the Days of Dutch Learning= Japanese Studies in the History of Science 1, pp. 83-91.
Bottomley, Ian 1997 >A Remarkable Armour= Royal Armouries Yearbook 2, pp. 144-148.
McClatchie, Thomas R. 1876 >The Feudal Mansions of Yedo= Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 7, pp. 157-182.
Moore, Ray A. 1970 >Adoption and Samurai Mobility in Tokugawa Japan= Journal of Asian Studies 29, 3 pp. 617-632.
Dautremer, J. 1885 >The Vendetta or Legal Revenge in Japan= Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 13, pp. 82-89.
Ackroyd, Joyce 1957 >Women in Feudal Japan= Transactions of the Japan Society of London pp. 31-68.
Rogers, John M. 1990a >Arts of War in Times of Peace: Archery in Honch Bugei Shden, Chapter 4' Monumenta Nipponica 45, 3 pp. 253-284.
Bain, Edgar C. 1962 >Nippon-t: an introduction to old swords of Japan= Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 220, 4 pp. 265-282.
Rogers, John M. 1990b >Arts of War in Times of Peace: Swordsmanship in Honch Bugei Shden, Chapter 5' Monumenta Nipponica 45, 4 pp. 413-447.
Rogers, John M. 1991 >Arts of War in Times of Peace: Swordsmanship in Honch Bugei Shden, Chapter 6' Monumenta Nipponica 46, 2 pp. 173-202.
Buck, James H. 1973 >The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877. From Kagoshima through the Siege of Kumamoto Castle= Monumenta Nipponica 28, 4 pp. 427-446.
Allen, Louis 1976 >Death and Honour in Japan= The Listener June 24 1976 pp. 800-802.
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