Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune - Hardcover

Turner, Pamela S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1580895840 ISBN 13: 9781580895842

Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S., 2016

Synopsis

Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga.

This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history.

When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family--and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery. Skinny, small, and unskilled in the warrior arts, he nevertheless escaped and learned the ways of the samurai. When the time came for the Minamoto clan to rise up against their enemies, Yoshitsune answered the call. His daring feats and impossible bravery earned him immortality.

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PAMELA S. TURNER is the author of Life on Earth--and Beyond, The Dolphins of Shark Bay (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and the Orbis Pictus Honor Book The Frog Scientist (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Pamela lives in Oakland, California.

Back in college GARETH HINDS sketched legendary scenes from Yoshitsune's life--just for fun. Today he is the creator of highly acclaimed graphic-novel adaptions of Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Odyssey, Beowulf, and other classics (Candlewick). Gareth lives in Washington D.C.

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Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

By Pamela S. Turner, Gareth Hinds

Charlesbridge

Copyright © 2016 Pamela S. Turner
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-58089-584-2

Few warriors are as famous as the Japanese samurai. We rememberthose beautiful swords and those fearsome helmets. Werecall, with both horror and fascination, how some chose to endtheir own lives. But no one can understand the Japanese samuraiwithout knowing Minamoto Yoshitsune.Yoshitsune’s story unfolds in the late twelfth century,during the adolescence of the samurai. Yes, cultures have theiryouth, maturity, and old age, just as people do. During Yoshitsune’slifetime the samurai awakened. Their culture was bold,rebellious, and eager to flex its muscle. The samurai would ultimatelydestroy Japan’s old way of life and forge a new oneusing fire and steel and pain.Yoshitsune was at the very heart of this samurai rising.Hostage, runaway, fugitive, rebel, and hero, he became themost famous warrior in Japanese history. The reason is simple:Yoshitsune was the kind of man other samurai longed to be.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580895840
• ISBN 13: 9781580895842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Hinds Gareth
• Number of pages: 256