Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

The Resource Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
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Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
Title remainder
the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
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Pamela S. Turner ; illustrated by Gareth Hinds
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Language
eng
Summary
  • Child exile. Teenage runaway. Military genius. Immortal hero. Yoshitsune had little going for him. Exiled to a monastery, he had no money, no allies, and no martial training. He wasn't big or strong or good-looking. His only assets were brains, ambition, and a dream. But childhood dreams can change history. At the age of fifteen, Yoshitsune escaped. Blow by painful blow, he learned the art of the sword. Fall after bruising fall, he mastered mounted archery. He joined his half brother Yoritomo in an uprising against the most powerful samurai in Japan. This is the story of insane courage and daring feats, bitter rivalry and fatal love. Based on one of the great works of Japanese history and literature, Samurai Rising takes a clear-eyed, very modern look at the way of the samurai and at the man who became the most famous samurai of all. - Author website
  • Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic tale of warriors and bravery, rebellion and revenge, reads like a novel, but 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 brothers sent away. Yoshitsune was raised in his enemy's household until he was sent to live in a monastery. He grew up skinny and small. Not the warrior type. But he did inherit his family pride and when the time came for the Minamoto to rise up against their enemy once again, Yoshitsune was there. His daring feats -- such as storming a fortress by riding on horseback down the side of a cliff -- and his glorious victory at sea, secured Yoshitsune's place in history and his story is still being told centuries later. - Publisher
  • 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
Awards note
2017 YALSA Nonfiction Award Finalist.
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
  • 952/.01092
  • B
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
DS856.72.M56
LC item number
T87 2016
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Reading level
  • 7.4.
  • 7.2.
Study program name
  • Reading Counts!
  • Accelerated Reader
  • A/R 7.2 upper grades 6.0 points.
Target audience
juvenile
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