Title: Giving up the gun
First published: 1979
Description: This is a significant story, and Perrin tells it marvelously well, with rich detail, captivating quotations from observers of the time, both Japanese and Western, and a wealth of revealing comparisons with contemporary technology, warfare, and life in Europe. This little book is both thought-provoking and a delight to read.
Subjects: History, Swordplay, Firearms, Large type books, Japanese, Japan, social life and customs, Swordplay, japan, Japan, history, Japanese Firearms
Places: Japan
Time periods: Tokugawa period, 1600-1868, Period of civil wars, 1480-1603