Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

Turner, Pamela S., author.

Book 2016

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ISBN:

9781580895842
1580895840

Description:

xiii, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Disaster in Kyoto: Kyoto, 1160
Headless ghosts: Kurama, 1160-1174
Samurai boot camp: Hiraizumi, 1174- 1180
Brothers-in-arms: Kamakura, 1180-1184
Perilous river: Kyoto, 1184
Midnight strike: Ichi-no-Tani, 1184
Hooves like hailstones: Ichi-no-Tani, 1184
Into the storm: Kyoto, Shikoku, and Yashima, 1184-1185
The dropped bow: Yashima, 1185
The drowned sword: Dan-no-Ura, 1185
Assassins in the dark: Dan-no-Ura, Kyoto, and Koshigoe, 1185
Shizuka's song: Kyoto, Kamakura, and the Yoshino Mountains, 1185-1186
The fugitive: locations unknown, 1185-1187
Feast of arrows: Hiraizumi, 1187-1189
Epilogue: the Samurai weeps

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2250735

Other Authors:

Hind, Gareth, illustrator

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