Samurai Bibliography
Adophson, Michael S. The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sôhei in
Japanese History. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
--- . “Benkei’s Ancestors: Monastic Warriors in Heian Japan.” In Currents in Medieval
Japanese History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey P. Mass, edited by Gordon M. Berger,
Andrew Edmund Goble, Lorraine F. Harrington, G. Cameron Hurst III, 87-128. Los
Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2009.
Anshin, Anatoliy. The Truth of the Ancient Ways: A Critical Biography of the Swordsman
Yamaoka Tesshu. Kodenkan Institute, 2012.
Ansart, Olivier. “Loyalty in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Samurai Discourse,” Japanese
Studies 27.2 (2007): 139-154.
Bargen, Doris G. General Nogi and the Writings of Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki. Honolulu:
University of Hawai’i Press, 2006.
Bennett, Alexander C. Kendo: The Culture of the Sword. Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 2015.
Brown, Delmer M. "The Impact of Firearms on Japanese Warfare, 1543-98," The Far Eastern
Quarterly, 7.3 (May, 1948): 236-253.
Callahan, Caryl and Ihara Saikaku, “Tales of Samurai Honor: Saikaku’s Buke Giri Monogatari,”
Monumenta Nipponica 34.1 (1979): 1-20.
Conlan,Thomas Donald. “Largesse and the Limits of Loyalty in the Fourteenth Century.” In The
Origins of Japan’s Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the
Fourteenth Century, edited by Jeffrey P. Mass. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1997, 39-64.
--- . The culture of force and farce: fourteenth-century Japanese warfare. Cambridge: Harvard
University, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, 2000.
--- . In little need of divine intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's scrolls of the Mongol invasions of
Japan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
--- . State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan. Ann Arbor: Center for
Japanese Studies University of Michigan, 2003.
--- . Weapons and Fighting Techniques of the Samurai Warrior, 1200-1877. London: Amber,
2008.
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Farris, William Wayne. Heaven Warriors: The Evolution of Japan’s Military, 500-1300.
Harvard University Press, 1992.
Ferejohn, John A. & Frances McCall Rosenbluth, eds. War and State Building in Medieval
Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Friday, Karl F. Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1992.
--- . “Bushido or Bull? A Medieval Historian’s Perspective on the Imperial Army and the
Japanese Warrior Tradition,” The History Teacher, 27.3 (May 1994), 339-349.
--- . Legacies of the sword : the Kashima-Shinryu and samurai martial culture. Honolulu:
University of Hawai’i Press, 1997.
--- . Samurai, warfare and the state in early medieval Japan. London: Routledge, 2004.
--- . “Might Makes Right: Just War and Just Warfare in Early Medieval Japan.” In The Ethics of
War in Asian Civilizations: A Comparative Perspective, edited by Torkel Brekke, 159184. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
--- . “Lordship Interdicted: Taira no Tadatsune and the Limited Horizons of Warrior Ambition,”
in Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries, eds. Michael Adolphson, Edward Kamens and
Stacie Matsumoto. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007, 329-356.
--- . The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel Taira Masakado. Hoboken,
NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
--- . “What a Difference a Bow Makes: The Rules of War in Early Medieval Japan.” In
Currents in Medieval Japanese History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey P. Mass, edited by
Gordon M. Berger, Andrew Edmund Goble, Lorraine F. Harrington, G. Cameron Hurst
III, 53-86. Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2009.
--- . “They Were Soldiers Once: The Early Samurai and the Imperial Court,” in Ferejohn, John
A. & Frances McCall Rosenbluth, eds. War and State Building in Medieval Japan.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, 21-52.
Gerstle, C. Andrew. “Heroic Honor: Chikamatsu and the Samurai Ideal.” Harvard Journal of
Asiatic Studies 57.2 (1997): 307-381.
Goble, Andrew Edmund. Go Daigo’s Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia
Center, 1996.
Hall, John Whitney, “The Muromachi Bakufu,” in The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 3:
Medieval Japan, edited by Kozo Yamamura, 175-230. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1990.
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Hurst, G. Cameron III. “Death, honor, and loyality: The bushitô ideal,” Philosophy East and
West 40.4 (October 1990): 511-527.
--- . “The Warrior as Ideal for a New Age.” In The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World:
Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century, edited by Jeffrey
P. Mass. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, 209-236.
--- . Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1998.
Ike, Susumu. “Competence over Loyalty: Lords and Retainers in Medieval Japan.” In Ferejohn,
John A. & Frances McCall Rosenbluth, eds. War and State Building in Medieval Japan.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, 53-70.
Ikegami, Eiko. The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern
Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Issai Chozanshi. The Demon’s Sermon on Martial Arts: And Other Tales, translated by William
Scott Wilson. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2006.
Imatani, Akira. “Muromachi Local Government: shugo and kokujin,” translated by Suzanne
Gray. In The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 3: Medieval Japan, edited by Kozo
Yamamura, 231-259. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Kaibara, Ekiken (1630-1714). Yojokun: Life Lessons from a Samurai, translated by William
Scott Wilson. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2008.
Jansen, Marius. Warrior Rule in Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
McCullough, Helen Craig, translator. The Taiheiki: A Chronicle of Medieval Japan. Boston:
Tuttle Publishing, 1959.
Mass, Jeffrey. Lordship and Inheritance in Early Medieval Japan: A Study of the Kamakura
Soryo System. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.
--- , “The Kamakura Bakufu,” in The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 3: Medieval Japan,
edited by Kozo Yamamura, 46-88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
--- , “The Decline of the Kamakura Bakufu,” in The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 3:
Medieval Japan, 128-174.
--- . Yoritomo and the Founding of the First Bakufu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Moon, Hyungsub. “The Matsura Pirate-Warriors of Northwestern Kyushu in the Kamakura
Age.” In Currents in Medieval Japanese History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey P. Mass,
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edited by Gordon M. Berger, Andrew Edmund Goble, Lorraine F. Harrington, G.
Cameron Hurst III, 331-361. Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2009.
Morillo, Stephan. “Cultures of Death: Suicide in Medieval Europe and Japan.” The Medieval
History Journal 4 (2001): 241-257.
Oyler, Elizabeth. Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval
Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2005.
Pinguet, Maurice. Voluntary death in Japan. Rosemary Morris, tr. Cambridge, UK : Polity
Press, 1993.
Pitelka, Morgan, “The Early Modern Warrior: Three Explorations of Samurai Life,” Early
Modern Japan 16 (2008): 33-42.
Rath, Eric C. “Banquets Against Boredom: Towards Understanding (Samurai) Cuisine in Early
Modern Japan,” Early Modern Japan 16 (2008): 43-55.
Ravina, Mark. The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori. Hoboken, NJ: John
Wiley & Sons, 2004.
Rogers, John M. “Arts of War in Times of Peace: Archery in the Honchō Bugei Shōden,”
Monumenta Nipponica 45.3 (1990): 253-260.
Saikaku Ihara. Comrade Loves of the Samurai. E. Powys Mathers, translator. Rutland, VT:
Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1972.
Souyri, Pierre François. Käthe Roth, tr. The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese
Society. London: Pimlico, 2002.
--- . “Autonomy and War in the Sixteenth-Century Iga Region and the Birth of the Ninja
Phenomenon,” in Ferejohn, John A. & Frances McCall Rosenbluth, eds. War and State
Building in Medieval Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, 110-123.
Takuan Soho (1573–1645). The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master
Swordsman, translated by William Scott Wilson. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1988.
Teeuwen, Mark & Kate Wildman Nakai, eds., Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: What I have
seen and heard, by an Edo Samurai. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
Turnbull, S.R. The Samurai: A Military History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc,
1977.
Vaporis, Constantine N. "Samurai and Merchant in Mid-Tokugawa Japan: Tani Tannai's Record
of Daily Necessities," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 60.1 (2000): 205-228.
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--- . Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan.
Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2008.
--- . “Samurai and the World of Goods: The Diaries of the Toyama Family of Hachinohe,”
Early Modern Japan 16 (2008): 56-67.
Varley, H. Paul, Albert Dien (Editor), Ivan Morris (Editor), Ainslie T. Embree (Editor),Charles P.
Issaw, The Onin War: History of Its Origins and Background with a Selective Translation
of the Chronicle of Onin. December 1966.
Varley, H. Paul. Warriors of Japan: As Portrayed in the War Tales. Honolulu: University of
Hawai’i Press, 1994.
--- , “The Loyalty Ethic of Vassal Warriors in Medieval Japan.” In La Société Civile Face à
L’État: Dans Les Traditions Chinoise, Japonaise, Coréenne et Vietnamienne, ed. Léon
Vandermeersch. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 1994, 409-419.
--- . “Cultural Life of the Warrior Elite in the Fourteenth Century.” In The Origins of Japan’s
Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century,
edited by Jeffrey P. Mass. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, 192-208.
Wilson, William Scott. The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi. Tokyo: Kodansha
International, 2004.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo. Hagakure: The Book of Samurai. Translated by William Scott Wilson.
Kodansha International, 1992.
--- . Hagakure: The Heart of the Warrior, translated by D. E. Tarver. New York: Writers Club
Press, 2002.
Yamakawa Kikue. Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life.
Translated by Kate Wildman Nakai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
Yamamura Kozo, “The Increasing Poverty of the Samurai in Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1868,”
Journal of Economic History 31.2 (Jun., 1971): 378-406.
--- . A Study of Samurai Income and Entrepreneurship. Quantitative Analyses of Economic and
Social Aspects
Yumoto, John M. The Samurai Sword. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1958.
Yuzan Daidoji, Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinsu.
Translated by Thomas Cleary. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1999.
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