Samurai--the Weapons and the Spirit of the Japanese Warrior.Samurai--the Weapons and the Spirit of the Japanese Warrior Clive Sinclaire Lyons Press/Globe Pequot Press Guilford, CT www.LyonsPress.com ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 1592287204 $21.95 144 pp. Sinclaire's work has a nice tie-in with the classic and current Asian movies with samurai samurai (sä'm  rī`), knights of feudal Japan, retainers of the daimyo. This aristocratic warrior class arose during the 12th-century wars between the Taira and Minamoto clans and was or samurai-like characters. Coming to Japan about the eighth century from the Asian mainland, in Japan's insular insular /in·su·lar/ (-sdbobr-ler) pertaining to the insula or to an island, as the islands of Langerhans. in·su·lar adj. Of or being an isolated tissue or island of tissue. , closed, society, the samurai weaponry took on their own distinctive design and use. The samurai class and its weapons both for warfare and ceremonial purposes remained a central, influential part of Japanese society until World War II. This study is at once comprehensive and succinct, with the pleasing and informative visual elements of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color photographs, including close-ups, of samurai weapons, scenes from historical art work, and antique tinted photographs. Most are familiar with the Japanese samurai swords. But the less familiar armor, spears, bow and arrow bow and arrow, weapon consisting of two parts; the bow is made of a strip of flexible material, such as wood, with a cord linking the two ends of the strip to form a tension from which is propelled the arrow; the arrow is a straight shaft with a sharp point on one , and even guns in the past couple of centuries receive equal attention. |
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