tomo no Yakamochi: To Die by Our Sovereign’s Side (Poem written in 749)GENEALOGY OF THE MINAMOTO CLAN
Yamato Takeru: Loser As Hero (Fourth century A. D.)
Yorozu: “I Wanted To Show My Bravery!”(587)
tomo no Yakamochi: To Die by Our Sovereign’s Side (Poem written in 749)
Minamoto no Mitsuru and Taira no Yoshifumi: The Duel (Mid-10th century)
Minamoto no Mitsunaka: Warrior’s Conversion (Incident ca. 975)
Fujiwara no Yasumasa and Hakamadare: Presence of Mind
Muraoka no Gor
and Hakamadare: To Know When to be Alert
Taira no Koremochi, a.k.a. General Yogo: “Did You Bring His Head?”
Kanetada and Koremochi: Meaning of Revenge
Sakanoue no Haruzumi: A Warrior’s Shame
Minamoto no Raiko: Alert and Penetrating
Guardian Kings and The Oxcart: a Comic Interlude, with an account of the origin of Haniwa
Minamoto no Yorinobu: “Let Your Little Kid be Stabbed to Death!”
Raik and Others: Tales of Archery
Taira no Munetsune The Silent One
Taira no Sadatsuna: When Not to Risk Your Life
Minamoto no Yoshiie: “The Samurai of the Greatest Bravery Under Heaven”
Minamoto no Yoshitsune: A Hero Hounded
Kusunoki Masashige: A Guerrilla of Unflinching Loyalty
K no Moronao: “When a Warrior Falls In Love”
Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin: Two Warlords
Oda Nobunaga: The Warlord and Poetry
PART THREE: THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR
Hj Sun: “Lord Sun’s Twenty-One Articles”
Miyamoto Musashi: Gorin no Sho (Book Of Five Elements)
Yamamoto Tsunetomo: Hagakure (Hidden in Leaves)
The Forty-Seven Samurai: An Eyewitness Account, With Arguments
“MEMORANDUM OF OKADO DENPACHIRO”
