The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga (Brill's Japanese Studies Library)

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Product Description Shinch-K ki, the work translated here into English under the title The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga, is the most important source on the career of one of the best known figures in all of Japanese historyOda Nobunaga (1534-1582), the first of the Three Heroes who unified Japan after a century of fragmentation and internecine bloodshed. The other two of the triad, Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598) and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), also make frequent appearances in this chronicle, playing prominent although clearly subordinate roles. So the chronicle also is an important source on their early careers, as it is on a constellation of other actors in Japans sixteenth-century drama. The chronicles author, ta Gyichi, was Nobunagas former retainer and an eyewitness of some of the events he describes. He completed his work about the year 1610. Review Experts on early modern Japanese history will welcome this book, while more casual readers may find it a bit densefor their passing entertainment. Nobunaga is very probably the least well known of the three giant figures (withHideyoshi and Tokugawa) of later-16th-century Japan who set in motion the events that produced a unified countryunder the Tokugawa family's leadership after 1600. Helpful scholarly aids and refinements fill the volume. The translation is clear, the footnotes are substantive, and the supporting text analyses are often fascinating. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and scholars. -- R. B. Lyman Jr., emeritus, Simmons College, Choice January 2012 About the Author Jurgis Saulius Algirdas Elisonas, Ph.D. (1969) in History and Far Eastern Languages, Harvard University, is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of History at Indiana University. He has published extensively on Japanese political, cultural, and international history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Jeroen Pieter Lamers, Ph.D. (1998) in Literature, Leiden University, is Chief of Staff at the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture, and Innovation. His publications include Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered (Hotei, 2000) and other works on early modern Japanese history and culture.