Karl Friday
American historian
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- PhD History Princeton University
- Masters History Princeton University
- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karl F. Friday is an American Japanologist. Friday earned a bachelor's degree in Japanese at the University of Kansas in 1979, followed by a master's degree in East Asian languages and culture from the same institution in 1983. He then attended Stanford University to pursue graduate study in history, earning a master of arts degree in 1986, followed by a doctorate in 1989. Friday began his teaching career as an assistant professor at the University of San Diego. In 1990, he joined the faculty of the University of Georgia, where he was successively promoted to associate professor in 1993, and full professor in 1999. Upon retiring in 2012, Friday was granted emeritus status. He later served as Director of the IES Abroad Tokyo Center, and as professor, and currently professor emeritus, at Saitama University, in Japan. Friday specialized in the study of samurai history and culture, including Japanese martial arts. Friday also holds menkyo kaiden license in Kashima Shinryū.
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- Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan (2003) (58)
- Pushing beyond the Pale: The Yamato Conquest of the Emishi and Northern Japan (1997) (41)
- Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan (1992) (24)
- Bushid6 or Bull? A Medieval Historian's Perspective on the Imperial Army and the Japanese Warrior Tradition (1994) (21)
- Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture (1997) (20)
- The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 2: Heian Japan (2001) (9)
- Kendo: Its Philosophy, History and Means to Personal Growth (1996) (9)
- Legends of the Samurai (1995) (8)
- Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850 (2012) (7)
- The Futile Paradigm: In Quest of Feudalism in Early Medieval Japan (2010) (5)
- The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado (2007) (5)
- Legacies of the sword (1997) (4)
- Valorous Butchers: The art of war during the golden age of the Samurai (1993) (3)
- Samurai: An Encyclopedia of Japan's Cultured Warriors by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis (review) (2021) (2)
- Hired Swords (1996) (2)
- The organization of war (2004) (1)
- Medieval warriors and warfare (2017) (1)
- Teeth and Claws: Provincial Warriors and the Heian Court (1988) (1)
- In the Company of Wolves: Samurai and the Social Order in Early Medieval Japan (2005) (0)
- The Dawn of the Samurai (2018) (0)
- Reviews of Books:The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto Suzanne Gay (2003) (0)
- The Emergence of Japanese Kingship (review) (1999) (0)
- Announcement (1989) (0)
- Into the North and Out of the East: Core, Periphery, and Frontier in Classical Japan (2021) (0)
- Sorting the Past (2018) (0)
- Teishinkōki: Year 939 in the Journal of Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira (review) (2010) (0)
- DELMER M. BROWN, ed., The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 1. Ancient Japan , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993 XV + 602 pp. ISBN 0-521-22352-0. £ 70.00 ($ 110.00). (1995) (0)
- Nakamura Masanori, The Japanese Monarchy: Ambassador Joseph Grew and the Making of the "Symbol Emperor System", 1931-1991 (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 1992), 202 pp. Hardcover, $45.00 (1994) (0)
- Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan by Peter D. Shapinsky (review) (2016) (0)
- THE SCIENCE OF WAR (2004) (0)
- The "Emergence of the Samurai" and The Military History of Early Japan (1996) (0)
- Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History (2017) (0)
- Reviews of Books (2003) (0)
- Latter Three Years' War (1083–1087) (2011) (0)
- THE MEANING OF WAR (2004) (0)
- Alexander C. Bennett, Kendo: Culture of the Sword (2017) (0)
- Japan to 1200 (2020) (0)
- The Way of Which Warriors? Bushidō & the Samurai in Historical Perspective (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews : Nakamura Masanori, The Japanese Monarchy: Ambassador Joseph Grew and the Making of the "Symbol Emperor System", 1931-1991 (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 1992), 202 pp. Hardcover, $45.00 (1994) (0)
- Reply to Wayne Farris' Review (1994) (0)
- The tools of war (2004) (0)
- Former Nine Years' War (1051–1062) (2011) (0)
- Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan. (1993) (0)
- The culture of war (2004) (0)
- Suzanne Gay. The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2001. Pp. 301. $29.95 (2003) (0)
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