| Samurai Armies 1550-1615 Contributor(s): Turnbull, Stephen (Author), Hook, Richard (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 085045302X ISBN-13: 9780850453027 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1979 Annotation: In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firearms the Japanese had ever seen: simple matchlock muskets called arquebuses. They proved a decisive addition to the Japanese armoury, as for centuries the samurai had fought only with bow, sword and spear. In 1575, one of the greatest original thinkers in the history of samurai, Oda Nobunaga, arranged his arquebusiers in ranks three deep behind a palisade and proceeded, quite literally, to blow his opponent's cavalry to pieces, marking the beginning of a new era in Japanese military history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - General - History | Asia - Japan |
| Dewey: 355.009 |
| LCCN: 80479511 |
| Series: Men-At-Arms (Osprey) |
| Physical Information: 0.16" H x 7.24" W x 9.67" (0.40 lbs) 48 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firearms the Japanese had ever seen: simple matchlock muskets called arquebuses. They proved a decisive addition to the Japanese armoury, as for centuries the samurai had fought only with bow, sword and spear. In 1575, during the Battle of Nagashino, one of the greatest original thinkers in the history of samurai, Oda Nobunaga, arranged his arquebusiers in ranks three deep behind a palisade and proceeded, quite literally, to blow his opponent's cavalry to pieces, marking the beginning of a new era in Japanese military history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hook, Richard: - Richard Hook is an internationally acclaimed artist, renowned for his paintings of Native American culture. |