Shinsengumi : The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps

Author(s): Hillsborough, Romulus

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Near Fine
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	Near Fine
Edition:	1st Edition
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication Year:	2005
ISBN:	9780804836272
Book ID:	002194
Catalogue(s):	History - General ◇ War, Military History and Weapons

230pp. Lightly illustrated. Indexed. Blue publisher's cloth boards (bright, sharp, strong). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original pictorial dust jacket (very slightly bumped along upper edge). Account of the Meiji Revolution in the 1860s, which toppled the Tokugawa Shogunate which had ruled Japan for over two and half centuries. Begins with the violent reaction of the Samuri to the Shogun's decision in the 1850s to isolate westerners.

Keywords:

Japan Japanese history shogun samurai Japanese culture