Giving up the gun
Subtitle: Japan's reversion to the sword, 1543-1879
By: Noel Perrin.
Publisher: Shambhala; distributed in the U.S. by Random House
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Boulder; [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Firearms -- Japan -- History.; Swordplay -- Japanese -- History.; Japan -- History -- Period of civil wars, 1480-1603.; Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 113-122.
Reprint of the ed. published by D. R. Godine, Boston.