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Samurai Armies 1550-1615 Paperback - 1979

by Stephen Turnbull; Richard Hook (Illustrator)


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In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firearms the Japanese had ever seen: simple matchlock muskets called arquebuses. They proved a decisive addition to the Japanese armoury, as for centuries the samurai had fought only with bow, sword and spear. In 1575, during the Battle of Nagashino, one of the greatest original thinkers in the history of samurai, Oda Nobunaga, arranged his arquebusiers in ranks three deep behind a palisade and proceeded, quite literally, to blow his opponent's cavalry to pieces, marking the beginning of a new era in Japanese military history.

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  • Title Samurai Armies 1550-1615
  • Author Stephen Turnbull; Richard Hook (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition REPRINT
  • Pages 48
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Osprey Publishing (UK), London
  • Date 1979-03-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780850453027 / 085045302X
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.67 x 7.24 x 0.16 in (24.56 x 18.39 x 0.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 80479511
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.009

About the author

Stephen Turnbull is the world's leading English language authority on medieval Japan and the samurai. He has travelled extensively in the far east, particularly in Japan and Korea and is the author of The Samurai - A Military History.
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