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Ryoma: Life of a Renaissance Samurai
by Romulus Hillsborough
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0966740165
- ISBN 13
- 9780966740165
- Seller
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Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
1999 black softcover w red spine in very good condition; some wear to covers, good binding, no marks inside. US media mail only for shipping. Foreign delivery is possible through ASCENDIA with biblio.com.
The founder of Japan's first modern corporation was a swaggering swordsman who packed a Smith and Wesson, an outlaw who led a band of samurai to overthrow the shogun, and one of the most colorful figures in Japanese history. His name was Ryoma, which is the title of the only biographical novel in English about this charismatic leader of the samurai revolution (i.e., Meiji Restoration). It is the authentic story of Ryoma's key role in the revolution, by which Japan was transformed from a country of hundreds of samurai clans under the control of the Tokugawa Shogun, into a modern industrialized world power under the unifying rule of the Emperor. Mid-19th-century Japan was a caldron of political upheaval and intrigue and bloody inner-fighting among samurai. This most enthralling age in the annals of Japan brought forth some of the most fascinating men in that nation's history. Those men modernized Japan, and laid the foundation for the militarism of WWII and the economic powerhouse of today. This close look into the hearts and minds of those two-sworded men provides a deep insight into the political, cultural, and psychological roots of modern Japan.
The founder of Japan's first modern corporation was a swaggering swordsman who packed a Smith and Wesson, an outlaw who led a band of samurai to overthrow the shogun, and one of the most colorful figures in Japanese history. His name was Ryoma, which is the title of the only biographical novel in English about this charismatic leader of the samurai revolution (i.e., Meiji Restoration). It is the authentic story of Ryoma's key role in the revolution, by which Japan was transformed from a country of hundreds of samurai clans under the control of the Tokugawa Shogun, into a modern industrialized world power under the unifying rule of the Emperor. Mid-19th-century Japan was a caldron of political upheaval and intrigue and bloody inner-fighting among samurai. This most enthralling age in the annals of Japan brought forth some of the most fascinating men in that nation's history. Those men modernized Japan, and laid the foundation for the militarism of WWII and the economic powerhouse of today. This close look into the hearts and minds of those two-sworded men provides a deep insight into the political, cultural, and psychological roots of modern Japan.
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- Bookseller
- Poco Productions
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9511asia
- Title
- Ryoma: Life of a Renaissance Samurai
- Author
- Romulus Hillsborough
- Format/Binding
- Excellent Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0966740165
- ISBN 13
- 9780966740165
- Publisher
- Ridgeback Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Ryoma: Life of a Renaissance Samurai
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - Asia;
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