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William Scott Wilson (born 1944, Nashville, Tennessee) is known for translating several works of Japanese literature, mostly those relating to the martial tradition of that country. Wilson has brought historical Chinese and Japanese thought, philosophy, and tactics to the West in his translations of famous East Asian literature.
The Shoku Nihongi (797 AD) is an early history of Japan compiled in 797. A section of the book covering the year 723 is notable [citation needed] for an early [citation needed] use of the term "bushi" in Japanese [citation needed] literature and a reference to the educated warrior-poet ideal:to create a folktale
Maeda Toshimasu (前田 利益, c. 1543 – 1612), better known as Maeda Keiji (前田 慶次) or Keijirō (慶次郎), was a Japanese samurai lord of the Sengoku period through early Edo period. He was the nephew of Maeda Toshiie and Maeda Matsu .
A samurai in his armour in the 1860s. Hand-colored photograph by Felice Beato. Samurai or bushi (武士, [bɯ.ɕi]) were members of the warrior class in Japan.They were most prominent as aristocratic warriors during the country's feudal period from the 12th century to early 17th century, and thereafter as a top class in the social hierarchy of the Edo period until their abolishment in the ...
This article is a list of shoguns that ruled Japan intermittently, as hereditary military dictators, [1] from the beginning of the Asuka period in 709 until the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868. [ a ]
This category represents Japanese texts written in the Edo period (1603-1867). It marks the end of what is known as "classical literature". It marks the end of what is known as "classical literature".
The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 [1] in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional daimyo, or feudal lords.
Duels Musō Gonnosuke, master of the five-foot staff in Edo. 1610 25–26 Fights Hayashi Osedo and Tsujikaze Tenma in Edo. 1611 26–27 Begins practicing zazen meditation. 1612 28 Duel with Sasaki Kojirō takes place on 13 April, on Ganryū-jima off the coast of Shimonoseki in which Kojiro is defeated. Briefly opens a fencing school. 1614 ...