Books by Constantine Vaporis
“Specialists, students—in fact anyone who has passing knowledge of Tokugawa Japan—knows about the tour of duty, this alternate attendance system, but no one had really gotten into the details of how it actually functioned. This is a book that gets into those details and again, for me, it’s a book where I can never go back.” Read more...
Michael Wert, Historian
Interviews where books by Constantine Vaporis were recommended
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Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan
by Luke Roberts -
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The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan
by Eiko Ikegami -
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Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan
by Constantine Vaporis -
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Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
by Teruko Craig (editor and translator) -
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Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai
Mark Teeuwen and Kate Wildman Nakai (eds)
The best books on Samurai, recommended by Michael Wert
The best books on Samurai, recommended by Michael Wert
The samurai, Japan’s warrior caste, have been embraced by popular culture and made their way into films, comic books and video games. But who were they really? Michael Wert, professor of East Asian History at Marquette University and author of Samurai: A Concise History, recommends the best books to learn more about samurai, literally ‘one who serves.’
