Ota Gyuichi, J. S. A. Elisonas (TRN), J. P. Lamers (TRN) The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga

Annotation

Shincho-Ko ki is the most important source for the career of Oda Nobunaga (1534-82), the first of the Three Heroes who unified Japan after a hundred years of fragmentation and internecine warfare. Ota was a former retainer and an eyewitness to some of the events he describes in the chronicle he completed about 1610. The first part recounts Nobunga's early life as a provincial warlord up to 1567. Each of the following 15 chapters covers one year, from his 1568 march on Kyoto to install his protTgT in the shogunate until he was killed in a 1582 rebellion. Jurgis Saulius Algirdas Elisonas (emeritus, East Asian languages and cultures, Indiana U.) and Jeroen Pieter Lamers, a scholar of early modern Japanese history and culture now working for the Dutch government, edit and translate the chronicle with full academic paraphernalia.