Samurai
$97.97
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
5 June 2026
Summary
The word ‘samurai’ stands for ideals of courage, honour, self-sacrifice and loyalty. Yet much of the common understanding is imaginative fiction. This book explores the concept from medieval reality, through early modern changes, to today’s hugely varied popular culture, challenging preconceptions and exploding myths.
The figure of the samurai is unique in its global intelligibility, read both as a symbol of Japan and as a universal icon of the virtuous and fearless w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780714137018 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0714137014 |
| Author: | Rosina Buckland, Oleg Benesch |
| Publisher: | British Museum Press |
| Imprint: | British Museum Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 5 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.77kg |
| Dimensions: | 37mm x 248mm x 278mm |
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Rosina Buckland
Rosina Buckland is Asahi Shimbun Curator: Japanese Collections, author of The Splendour of Modernity: Japanese Arts of the Meiji Era (Reaktion Books, 2024) and curator of the exhibition Samurai at the British Museum.
Oleg Benesch is Head of Department and Professor of Modern History at the University of York and co-author of Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace (CUP, 2019).
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