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Turner, Pamela S.,

Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune / Pamela S. Turner ; illustrated by Gareth Hinds. - xiii, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index.

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.

ISBN: 9781580895842 (reinforced for library use)

LCCN: 2014049179

Subjects--Personal Names:
Minamoto, Yoshitsune, 1159-1189 --Juvenile literature.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Generals--Japan--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Samurai--Japan--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Japan--History--Heian period, 794-1185--Juvenile literature.

LC Class. No.: DS856.72.M56 / T87 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 952/.01092 B