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    Samurai Armies 1467–1649

    By Stephen Turnbull

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    The Sengoku The Jidai, 'Age of Warring States', is the age of the samurai the military aristocracy of Japan. This period, which lasted from the outbreak of the Onin War in 1467 to the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the early 17th century, was a period of endemic warfare, when a lack of central control led to constant struggles between the daimyo, 'great names', who sought to extend the influence of their families through political and military means. This title will examine the complicated nature of family and clan that governed so much of the initial organization of the armies, how this changed over the period and how battlefield tactics developed over a series of major encounters such as Nagashino and Sekigahara.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateJan 20, 2013
    ISBN9781472800039
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    Samurai Armies 1467–1649
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    Stephen Turnbull

    Stephen Turnbull is widely recognised as the world's leading English language authority on the samurai of Japan. He took his first degree at Cambridge and has two MAs (in Theology and Military History) and a PhD from Leeds University. He is now retired and pursues an active literary career, having now published 85 books. His expertise has helped with numerous projects including films, television and the award-winning strategy game Shogun Total War.

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      In this Osprey monograph Turnbull examines the evolution of Japan's "feudal" armies from being personal war bands to their eventual coalescence as the army of the Tokugawa Shogunate; essentially the national army of Japan. Much time is spent on the links of social obligation that were the foundation of these forces, the typical organization and formations, and some examples of these forces in action which illustrate the course of their evolution; particularly the rise of massed infantry and the introduction of firearms.