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NOEL PERRIN, 1980 book Giving Up the Gun, Japan's reversion to the sword, 1543 - 1879.
Japan history Give up the gun book Noel Perrin


 
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NOEL PERRIN, 1980 book Giving Up the Gun, Japan's reversion to the sword, 1543 - 1879. Great reads, 123 pages. The book measures around 8" by 6". Preowned book in a nice condition. Normal reading ware.
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Professor Noel Perrin has written an elegant monograph, magnificently illustrated with a wealth of Japanese prints. --New York Times Book Review
Through his description of one historical event in Japan s national experience, Noel Perrin has written a book as tight and elegant as haiku. The story is a fascinating one: Japan s introduction to, mastery of, and subsequent abandonment of, the gun.... Perrin s work is so crisp and interesting, and so loaded with background information and revealing anecdotes, that the whole peculiar episode it describes jumps to life from its pages. --The New Republic

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