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Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune Cover Image Book

Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune / Pamela S. Turner ; with illustrations by Gareth Hinds.

Turner, Pamela S., (author.). Hind, Gareth, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Documents the true story of the legendary samurai who was raised in the household of the enemies who killed his father before being sent to live in a monastery where, against the odds, he learned and perfected his fighting skills.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781580895842
  • ISBN: 1580895840
  • Physical Description: xiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes glossary of Japanese words.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical refereces and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Disaster in Kyoto: Kyoto, 1160 CE -- Headless ghosts: Kurama, 1160-1174 CE -- Samurai boot camp: Hiraizumi, 1174- 1180 CE -- Brothers-in-arms: Kamakura, 1180-1184 CE -- Perilous river: Kyoto, 1184 CE -- Midnight strike: Ichi-no-Tani, 1184 CE -- Hooves like hailstones: Ichi-no-Tani, 1184 CE -- Into the storm: Kyoto, Shikoku, and Yashima, 1184-1185 CE -- The dropped bow: Yashima, 1185 CE -- The drowned sword: Dan-no-Ura, 1185 CE -- Assassins in the dark: Dan-no-Ura, Kyoto, and Koshigoe, 1185 CE -- Shizuka's song: Kyoto, Kamakura, and the Yoshino Mountains, 1185-1186 CE -- The fugitive: locations unknown, 1185-1187 CE -- Feast of arrows: Hiraizumi, 1187-1189 CE -- Epilogue: the Samurai weeps.
Target Audience Note:
950L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.2 6 179546.

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Subject:
Minamoto, Yoshitsune, 1159-1189.
Generals > Japan > Biography.
Samurai > Japan > Biography.
Japan > History > Heian period, 794-1185.
Genre:
Biographies.
Young adult literature.
Young adult literature.

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