Author:
Woodson, Yoko.
Publisher:[San Francisco] : Asian Art Museum--Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, c2009.
Description:xvii, 222 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Note:"This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Lords of the Samurai: Legacy of a Daimyo Family', organized by the Asian Art Museum and the Eisei-Bunko Hosokawa Collection, Tokyo. The exhibition was presented in San Francisco at the Asian Art Museum from June 12 through September 20, 2009."--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references, "Recommended readings" (p. 220-221) and index of names..
Note:Foreword: warriors and the literary arts / Takeuchi Jun’ichi -- Emergence and development of the samurai / Yoko Woodson -- Bushido : the culture of the Samurai / Thomas Cleary.
Note:'Lords of the Samurai' illuminates the private and public lives of the daimyo by focusing on approximately 160 works from the Hosokawa family collection housed in the Eisei-Bunko Museum in Tokyo, the Kumamoto Castle and the Kumamoto Municipal Museum in Kyushu.
