The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20162-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 20 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1015 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

Shincho-Ko 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. 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 Japan’s sixteenth-century drama. The chronicle’s author, Ota Gyuichi, was Nobunaga’s former retainer and an eyewitness of some of the events he describes. He completed his work about the year 1610.

Autoren/Hrsg.

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Ota, Gyuichi

Elisonas, Jurgis S a

Lamers, Jeroen P

Weitere Mitwirkende

Elisonas, Jurgis S.A.

Lamers, Jeroen P.

Elisonas, Jurgis S a

Lamers, Jeroen P

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

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.