The Samurais Tale

Author : Erik Christian Haugaard
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618615124
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Samurai's Tale written by Erik Christian Haugaard and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the powerful Lord Takeda's soldiers sweep across the countryside, killing and plundering, they spare the boy Taro's life and take him along with them. Taro becomes a servant in the household of the noble Lord Akiyama, where he meets Togan, a cook, who teaches Taro and makes his new life bearable. But when Togan is murdered, Taro's life takes a new direction: He will become a samurai, and redeem the family legacy that has been stolen from him.

Author : Erik Christian Haugaard
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395549704
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Samurai's Tale written by Erik Christian Haugaard and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1984 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is taken in by a general who is serving the great warlord Takeda Shingen. Taro grows up to become a samurai fighting for the enemies of his dead family.

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ISBN 13 : 9781435248519
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Author : Gail Tsukiyama
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429965142
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Samurai's Garden written by Gail Tsukiyama and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama's The Samurai's Garden uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for this extraordinary story. A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soulmate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.

Author : Saikaku Ihara
Publisher : Alamo Square Distributors
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gay Tales of the Samurai written by Saikaku Ihara and published by Alamo Square Distributors. This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gloria Levine
Publisher : Novel Units, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781561378180
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Samurai's Tale Novel Units Teacher Guide written by Gloria Levine and published by Novel Units, Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of The Samurai's tale by Erik Christian Haugaard.

Author : Thomas Lockley
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488098751
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Samurai written by Thomas Lockley and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the first foreign-born samurai and his journey from Africa to Japan is “a readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life” (The Washington Post). When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s, he had already traveled much of the known world. Kidnapped as a child, he had ended up a servant and bodyguard to the head of the Jesuits in Asia, with whom he traversed India and China learning multiple languages as he went. His arrival in Kyoto, however, literally caused a riot. Most Japanese people had never seen an African man before, and many of them saw him as the embodiment of the black-skinned Buddha. Among those who were drawn to his presence was Lord Nobunaga, head of the most powerful clan in Japan, who made Yasuke a samurai in his court. Soon, he was learning the traditions of Japan’s martial arts and ascending the upper echelons of Japanese society. In the four hundred years since, Yasuke has been known in Japan largely as a legendary, perhaps mythical figure. Now African Samurai presents the never-before-told biography of this unique figure of the sixteenth century, one whose travels between countries and cultures offers a new perspective on race in world history and a vivid portrait of life in medieval Japan. “Fast-paced, action-packed writing. . . . A new and important biography and an incredibly moving study of medieval Japan and solid perspective on its unification. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal (starred review) “Eminently readable. . . . a worthwhile and entertaining work.” —Publishers Weekly “A unique story of a unique man, and yet someone with whom we can all identify.” —Jack Weatherford, New York Times–bestselling author of Genghis Khan

Author : Erik Christian Haugaard
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618548965
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revenge of the Forty-Seven Samurai written by Erik Christian Haugaard and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fourteen-year-old serving boy finds himself surrounded by suspicion and betrayal as his master gathers a group of samurai to avenge Lord Asano's death.

Author : Katsu Kokichi
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816552363
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musui's Story written by Katsu Kokichi and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of picaresque adventures set against the backdrop of a Japan still closed off from the rest of the world, Musui's Story recounts the escapades of samurai Katsu Kokichi. As it depicts Katsu stealing, brawling, indulging in the pleasure quarters, and getting the better of authorities, it also provides a refreshing perspective on Japanese society, customs, economy, and human relationships. From childhood, Katsu was given to mischief. He ran away from home, once at thirteen, making his way as a beggar on the great trunk road between Edo and Kyoto, and again at twenty, posing as the emissary of a feudal lord. He eventually married and had children but never obtained official preferment and was forced to supplement a meager stipend by dealing in swords, selling protection to shopkeepers, and generally using his muscle and wits. Katsu's descriptions of loyalty and kindness, greed and deception, vanity and superstition offer an intimate view of daily life in nineteenth-century Japan unavailable in standard history books. Musui's Story will delight not only students of Japan's past but also general readers who will be entranced by Katsu's candor and boundless zest for life.

Author : Shūsaku Endō
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213462
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Samurai written by Shūsaku Endō and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered one of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, THE SAMURAI seamlessly combines historical fact with a novelist's imaginings. Set in the period preceding the Christian persecutions in Japan recorded so memorably in Endo's SILENCE, this book traces the steps of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil.