The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga

Shinchō-Kō 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 history--Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), the first of the "Three Heroes" who unified Japan after a century of fragmentation and internecine bloodshed.

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.

Product details

• Authors: &, Gy&ichi 332;Ta
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2011
• EAN: 9789004201620
• ISBN: 978-90-04-20162-0
• No. of pages: 532
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 249 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 1015 g
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Libra
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous