The Last Samurai

✏Book Title : The Last Samurai
✏Author : Warner Brothers
✏Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
✏Release Date : 2003-11-01
✏Pages : 160
✏ISBN : 1932273301
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Last Samurai Book Summary : Presents a guide to the motion picture in which a Civil War veteran travels to Japan to train the emperor's troops, only to be captured by samurai warriors, from whom he learns their code of honor and experiences a spiritual renewal.

✏Book Title : The Last Samurai
✏Author : Takanori Tomita
✏Publisher : Takanori Tomita
✏Release Date : 2004
✏Pages : 38
✏ISBN : 9780646439563
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Book Title : The Last Samurai
✏Author : Helen DeWitt
✏Publisher : New Directions Publishing
✏Release Date : 2016-05-31
✏Pages : 576
✏ISBN : 9780811225519
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Last Samurai Book Summary : Called “remarkable” (The Wall Street Journal) and “an ambitious, colossal debut novel” (Publishers Weekly), Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai is back in print at last Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise? Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.) Lacking male role models for a fatherless boy, Sibylla turns to endless replays of Kurosawa’s masterpiece Seven Samurai. But Ludo is obsessed with the one thing he wants and doesn’t know: his father’s name. At eleven, inspired by his own take on the classic film, he sets out on a secret quest for the father he never knew. He’ll be punched, sliced, and threatened with retribution. He may not live to see twelve. Or he may find a real samurai and save a mother who thinks boredom a fate worse than death.

✏Book Title : The Last Samurai
✏Author : Mark Ravina
✏Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
✏Release Date : 2011-03-29
✏Pages : 288
✏ISBN : 1118045564
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Last Samurai Book Summary : The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans as well - his life is the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe. In this vibrant new biography, Mark Ravina, professor of history and Director of East Asian Studies at Emory University, explores the facts behind Hollywood storytelling and Japanese legends, and explains the passion and poignancy of Saigo's life. Known both for his scholarly research and his appearances on The History Channel, Ravina recreates the world in which Saigo lived and died, the last days of the samurai. The Last Samurai traces Saigo's life from his early days as a tax clerk in far southwestern Japan, through his rise to national prominence as a fierce imperial loyalist. Saigo was twice exiled for his political activities -- sent to Japan's remote southwestern islands where he fully expected to die. But exile only increased his reputation for loyalty, and in 1864 he was brought back to the capital to help his lord fight for the restoration of the emperor. In 1868, Saigo commanded his lord's forces in the battles which toppled the shogunate and he became and leader in the emperor Meiji's new government. But Saigo found only anguish in national leadership. He understood the need for a modern conscript army but longed for the days of the traditional warrior. Saigo hoped to die in service to the emperor. In 1873, he sought appointment as envoy to Korea, where he planned to demand that the Korean king show deference to the Japanese emperor, drawing his sword, if necessary, top defend imperial honor. Denied this chance to show his courage and loyalty, he retreated to his homeland and spent his last years as a schoolteacher, training samurai boys in frugality, honesty, and courage. In 1876, when the government stripped samurai of their swords, Saigo's followers rose in rebellion and Saigo became their reluctant leader. His insurrection became the bloodiest war Japan had seen in centuries, killing over 12,000 men on both sides and nearly bankrupting the new imperial government. The imperial government denounced Saigo as a rebel and a traitor, but their propaganda could not overcome his fame and in 1889, twelve years after his death, the government relented, pardoned Saigo of all crimes, and posthumously restored him to imperial court rank. In THE LAST SAMURAI, Saigo is as compelling a character as Robert E. Lee was to Americans-a great and noble warrior who followed the dictates of honor and loyalty, even though it meant civil war in a country to which he'd devoted his life. Saigo's life is a fascinating look into Japanese feudal society and a history of a country as it struggled between its long traditions and the dictates of a modern future.

✏Book Title : Oba the Last Samurai
✏Author : Don Jones
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 1986
✏Pages : 241
✏ISBN : UVA:X001105775
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Oba the Last Samurai Book Summary : In July 1944 the Americans took the island of Saipan, but Captain Sakae Oba of the Japanese Army refused to acknowledge defeat.

✏Book Title : The Last Samurai
✏Author : Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2004
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : OCLC:779624467
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Last Samurai Book Summary : Tom Cruise plays Civil War hero Capt. Nathan Algren, who comes to Japan to fight the Samurai and ends up pledging himself to their cause. Ken Watanabe plays Katsumoto, a Samurai leader facing a vanishing way of life, whose destiny becomes intertwined with that of the American captain.

✏Book Title : Notebook
✏Author : LastQ Notebook
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2019-12-20
✏Pages : 110
✏ISBN : 1678492175
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Notebook Book Summary : College Ruled Color Paperback. Size: 6 inches x 9 inches. 55 sheets (110 pages for writing). The Last Samurai Pixel. 157683023849

✏Book Title : The Last Samurai
✏Author : Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2004
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : OCLC:779624467
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Last Samurai Book Summary : Tom Cruise plays Civil War hero Capt. Nathan Algren, who comes to Japan to fight the Samurai and ends up pledging himself to their cause. Ken Watanabe plays Katsumoto, a Samurai leader facing a vanishing way of life, whose destiny becomes intertwined with that of the American captain.

✏Book Title : Shinsengumi
✏Author : Romulus Hillsborough
✏Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
✏Release Date : 2013-06-25
✏Pages : 256
✏ISBN : 9781462913589
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Shinsengumi Book Summary : Shinsengumi: The Shogun's last Samurai Corps is the true story of the notorious samurai corps formed in 1863 to arrest or kill the enemies of the Tokugawa Shogun. The only book in English about the Shinsengumi, it focuses on the corps' two charismatic leaders, Kondo Isami and Hijikata Toshizo, both impeccable swordsmen. It is a history–in–brief of the final years of the Bakufu, which collapsed in 1867 with the restoration of Imperial rule. In writing Shinsengumi, Hillsborough referred mostly to Japanese–language primary sources, including letters, memoirs, journals, interviews, and eyewitness accounts, as well as definitive biographies and histories of the era. The fall of the shogun's government (Tokugawa Bakufu, or simply Bakufu) in 1868, which had ruled Japan for over two and a half centuries, was the greatest event in modern Japanese history. The revolution, known as the Meiji Restoration, began with the violent reaction of samurai to the Bakufu's decision in 1854 to open the theretofore isolated country to "Western barbarians." Though opening the country was unavoidable, it was seen as a sign of weakness by the samurai who clamored to "expel the barbarians." Those samurai plotted to overthrow the shogun and restore the holy emperor to his ancient seat of power. Screaming "heaven's revenge," they wielded their swords with a vengeance upon those loyal to the shogun. They unleashed a wave of terror at the center of the revolution—the emperor's capital of Kyoto. Murder and assassination were rampant. By the end of 1862, hordes of renegade samurai, called ronin, had transformed the streets of the Imperial Capital into a "sea of blood." The shogun's administrators were desperate to stop the terror. A band of expert swordsmen was formed. It was given the name Shinsengumi ("Newly Selected Corps")—and commissioned to eliminate the ronin and other enemies of the Bakufu. With unrestrained brutality bolstered by an official sanction to kill, the Shinsengumi soon became the shogun's most dreaded security force. In this vivid historical narrative of the Shinsengumi, the only one in the English language, author Romulus Hillsborough paints a provocative and thrilling picture of this most fascinating period in Japanese history.

✏Book Title : The Shogun s Last Samurai Corps
✏Author : Romulus Hillsborough
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2020-09
✏Pages : 256
✏ISBN : 4805315466
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Shogun s Last Samurai Corps Book Summary : "Power to them meant everything. It was founded on courage, which begot honor. And by this courage and for this honor they fought to the death." The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps tells the thrilling story, the first ever in the English language, of the Shinsengumi--the legendary Samurai corps tasked with keeping order in Kyoto during the turbulent final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868). This book recounts many fascinating tales of political intrigue, murder, and assassination that would turn Kyoto's streets into a sea of blood as rival groups vied for power including: The infamous slaughter at Ikeda'ya Inn where, after learning of a plan to set fire to the city, a group of thirty Shinsengumi viciously attacked and killed a group of anti-Tokugawa plotters, killing eight. The bloody assassination of Serizawa Kamo, the Shinsengumi leader, under highly suspicious circumstances which allowed his fellow commanders to consolidate power. The death of commander Kondo Isami, who was arrested by imperial troops, imprisoned, tried and executed for assassinations carried out by the Shinsengumi. The final bloody battles of the civil war where the Shinsengumi fought and died in a doomed last stand with the Shogun. Author and Samurai history expert Romulus Hillsborough uses letters, memoirs, interviews and eyewitness accounts to paint a vivid picture of the Shinsengumi, their origins, violent methods and the colorful characters that led the group. In this updated volume, Hillsborough has contributed a new chapter on the Tennen Rishin swordsmanship school favored by the Shinsengumi leadership further commenting on the bloody story of this fascinating Samurai corps.