num_pages: 236
description: Child exile. Teenage runaway. Military genius. Immortal hero.Yoshitsune had little going for him. Exiled to a monastery he had no money no allies and no martial training. He wasn't big or strong or good-looking. His only assets were brains ambition and a dream. But childhood dreams can change history.At the age of fifteen Yoshitsune escaped. Blow by painful blow he learned the art of the sword. Fall after bruising fall he mastered mounted archery. He joined his half brother Yoritomo in an uprising against the most powerful samurai in Japan.This is a story of insane courage and daring feats bitter rivalry and fatal love. Based on one of the great works of Japanese history and literature SAMURAI RISING takes a clear-eyed very modern look at the way of the samurai--and at the man who became the most famous samurai of all.
language: English
title: Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
publisher: Charlesbridge