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Samurai: A Biography in Twelve Lives

Autor Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 dec 2026
The samurai are often viewed monolithically as fearsome warriors, driven by a fixed code-the Bushido-and bent on dying in service to a lord, or daimyo. However, the Tokugawa Era, the long period of peace (1600 to 1868) after the Shogunate had centralized control in Japan, forced them to adjust. While many samurai continued to uphold martial values, others became bureaucrats, teachers, scholars, artists, and even entrepreneurs.In Samurai: A Biography in Twelve Lives, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis uses the lives of individual samurai during the Tokugawa Period to illuminate and explore this transformation. Twelve biographical portraits, ranging from that of legendary figures like Asano Naganori, to Niijima Yae, one of the few women to achieve warrior renown, illustrate the diversity of experience. Vaporis offers a riveting and comprehensive picture of their evolving identities. As he shows, samurai navigated the societal changes brought on by the "Great Peace" by balancing their warrior heritage with the demands of peacetime service, grappling with financial hardship and reinterpreting loyalty in a shifting political landscape.Vaporis provides a hauntingly humane portrayal of these historical figures while offering readers a deeper understanding of Japan's early modern era.
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ISBN-13: 9780197813942
ISBN-10: 0197813941
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 36 b/w figures
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

Constantine Nomikos Vaporis teaches Japanese history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he is a Professor of History and Founding Director of the Asian Studies Program. He has received numerous fellowships, including a Fulbright Scholar's Award and an NEH Fellowship for College Teachers. He was awarded UMBC's Presidential Research Professorship (2013-16) and the Lipitz Professorship of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (2019-20); and was selected for the ASIANetwork Speakers Bureau, 2016-20. He received a residential fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies for 2020-21 to complete work on this book. He has collaborated with Ted-Ed on "A Day in the Life of a Teenage Samurai," an animation viewed more than a million and a half times; is the author of a ten-part Audible course "The Real Life of a Japanese Samurai;" and is currently working on a new book, The Black Ships: A Cultural History the Opening of Japan, 1852-54.