Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan

Tracing the evolution of state military institutions from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, this book challenges much of the received wisdom of Western scholarship on the origins and early development of warriors in Japan.

• Author
• Karl F. Friday

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 284

• Publisher
• Stanford University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780804726962

• Genres
• japan, history

• Release date
• 1996