Samurai Warfare.Pdf
Arms and Armour Press A CASSELL IMPRINT Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R 0BB Distributed in the USA by Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016-8810. © Dr Stephen Turnbull, 1996 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photo- copying recording or any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the Publisher. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data: a catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1-85409-280-4 Designed and edited by DAG Publications Ltd. Designed by David Gibbons; layout by Anthony A. Evans; edited by Michael Boxall. Printed and bound in Spain by Bookprint CONTENTS Preface, 7 Part Two: THE TECHNIQUES OF Part One: SAMURAI WARFARE, 53 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SAMURAI WARFARE, 9 5. Samurai Warfare in the Sengoku Period, 54 1. Early Samurai Warfare, 10 From Mounted Archer to The Ancestors of the Samurai, 10 Mounted Spearman, 54 The Conscript Armies, 11 The Role and Status of the The Rise of the Mounted Ashigaru, 57 Warrior, 13 The Composition of Samurai The First Samurai, 16 Armies, 59 Early Samurai Battles, 20 Organisation and Commun- ication on the Battlefield, 65 2. Military Gentlemen, 22 The Sengoku Battle, 68 The Way of Horse and Bow, 22 The Archery Duel, 22 6. Specialised Units in the Single Combat and the Samurai Sengoku Army, 70 Sword, 25 Archers and Spearmen, 70 Single Combat and the Dagger, The Introduction of Firearms, 73 28 From Nagashima to Nagashino, The Samurai in Group Combat, 77 29 Cannon in Samurai Warfare, 78 3.
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