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25th February 2004, 20:27
Thought this might be of interest.
Thomas Conlan is a Stanford trained historian who did his work on injury reports of BUSHI after battles. He wrote a very entertaining piece (http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:NW4aN6AqV8IJ:www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs/Conlan%2520Paper%2520PDF.pdf+%22thomas+conlan%22+farce&hl=en&ie=UTF-8) which rather pillories the concept of the self-sacrificial warrior.
He has also published a book called In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan (Cornell East Asia Series, No 113)
by Thomas D. Conlan (Translator) (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/188544513X/qid=1077744572//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/103-1108117-8103817?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)
These scrolls, with translations, are available at:
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/mongol_scrolls/
Enjoy.
(Cross-posted with Aikiweb.com)
Thomas Conlan is a Stanford trained historian who did his work on injury reports of BUSHI after battles. He wrote a very entertaining piece (http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:NW4aN6AqV8IJ:www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs/Conlan%2520Paper%2520PDF.pdf+%22thomas+conlan%22+farce&hl=en&ie=UTF-8) which rather pillories the concept of the self-sacrificial warrior.
He has also published a book called In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan (Cornell East Asia Series, No 113)
by Thomas D. Conlan (Translator) (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/188544513X/qid=1077744572//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/103-1108117-8103817?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)
These scrolls, with translations, are available at:
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/mongol_scrolls/
Enjoy.
(Cross-posted with Aikiweb.com)