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Index
Cover
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments and Notes
Introduction
Chronology
Genealogy of the Minamoto Clan
Part One: Samurai Prowess
Yamato Takeru: Loser As Hero (Fourth century A. D.)
Yorozu: “I Wanted To Show My Bravery!”(587)
Ōtomo 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 Gorō 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
Tachibana no Norimitsu: “What Splendid Swordsmanship!” with a description of the same man as viewed by Sei Shōnagon, author of The Pillow Book
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!”
Raikō and Others: Tales of Archery
Taira no Munetsune The Silent One
Taira no Sadatsuna: When Not to Risk Your Life
Part Two: Battles Joined
Minamoto no Yoshiie: “The Samurai of the Greatest Bravery Under Heaven”
Minamoto no Yoshitsune: A Hero Hounded
Kusunoki Masashige: A Guerrilla of Unflinching Loyalty
Kō 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
Hōjō Sōun: “Lord Sōun’s Twenty-One Articles”
Miyamoto Musashi: Gorin no Sho (Book Of Five Elements)
Arai Hakuseki: “My Father”
Yamamoto Tsunetomo: Hagakure (Hidden in Leaves)
The Forty-Seven Samurai: An Eyewitness Account, With Arguments
“MEMORANDUM OF OKADO OENPACHIRO”
ARGUMENTS
Hayashi Nobuatsu
Satō Naokata
An Anonymous Samurai
Asami Yasusada
Dazai Shundai
Yokoi Yayū
Part Four: A Modern Retelling
“The Abe Family” by Mori Ōgai
Bibliography
Index of Important Figures
Maps
• Twelfth century
• Seventeenth century
Illustrations
• Cover: Kusunoki Masashige
• Hakamadare and Yasumasa
• Haniwa
• Yoshiie Exchanging Renga with Sadatō
• Oda Nobunaga
• Miyamoto Musashi
• Abe Yaichiemon and his Sons
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