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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-11 - Publisher: BRILL
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Language: en
Pages: 479
Pages: 479
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
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Language: en
Pages: 160
Pages: 160
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The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As e
