Jurgis Saulius Algirdas Elisonas, Ph.D. (1969) in History and Far
Eastern Languages, Harvard University, is Professor Emeritus of
East Asian Languages and Cultures and of History at Indiana
University. He has published extensively on Japanese political,
cultural, and international history of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
Jeroen Pieter Lamers, Ph.D. (1998) in Literature, Leiden
University, is Chief of Staff at the Netherlands Ministry of
Economic Affairs, Agriculture, and Innovation. His publications
include Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga
Reconsidered (Hotei, 2000) and other works on early modern Japanese
history and culture.
Experts on early modern Japanese history will welcome this book,
while more casual readers may find it a bit dense
for their passing entertainment. Nobunaga is very probably the
least well known of the three giant figures (with
Hideyoshi and Tokugawa) of later-16th-century Japan who set in
motion the events that produced a unified country
under the Tokugawa family's leadership after 1600. Helpful
scholarly aids and refinements fill the volume. The translation is
clear, the footnotes are substantive, and the supporting text
analyses are often fascinating. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
Graduate students and scholars. -- R. B. Lyman Jr., emeritus,
Simmons College, Choice January 2012
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