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SAMURAISAMURAIRELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

What's Inside:
  • Ancient Japan
  • Emperors of Early Japan
  • Samurai and Shoguns
  • Social Organization
  • Samurai Dress
  • Samurai Ways
  • Castles of the Samurai
  • The Age of Samurai Ends
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  • DIAGRAMS
  • LEXILE® READING LEVEL: 970L
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Sample Text
"Welcome to old Japan. Here, warriors clashed with swords on the battlefields and wrote poetry at home. Farmers grew rice but often went hungry themselves. And great castles had squeaky floors to warn their owners of spies dressed in black. About one hundred miles off the coast of East Asia sits the island nation of Japan. Waves and water form a natural barrier, protecting the islands from out. . . "
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ANCIENT CHINAANCIENT CHINA
"China is very old. Its written history goes back 3,500 years. In 221 b.c., when European kingdoms and states were still fighting among themselves, one of China's first great rulers united warring states to form a great empire. For over two thousand years-from 221 b.c. until a.d. 1912-the empire developed under the watchful eyes of more than a dozen ruling families, called dynasties. In 1912, the l. . . "
VALUE-PACKED SETS
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
  • Samurai: Warlords of Japan (High Interest Books). By Arlan Dean, Children's Press (CT), 2005.
  • Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun. By Rhoda Blumberg, HarperTrophy, 2003.
  • Shipwrecked! : The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy. By Rhoda Blumberg, HarperTrophy, 2003.
  • The Boy and the Samurai. By Erik C. Haugaard, Houghton Mifflin,2000.
  • Japan in the Days of the Samurai (Cultures of the Past). By Virginia Schomp, Benchmark Books, 2001.
ADULT BOOKS
  • Samurai: An Illustrated History. By Mitsuo Kure, Tuttle Publishing, 2002.
  • Castles of the Samurai: Power and Beauty. By Jennifer Mitchelhill, Kodansha, 2004.
  • The Last Samurai : The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori. By Mark Ravina, Wiley, 2003
  • Samurai: The World of the Warrior. By Stephen Turnbull, Osprey Pub Co, 2003.
  • Japanese Castles 1540-1640 (Fortress). By Stephen Turnbull, Osprey Publishing (UK), 2003
WEBSITES
  • Samurai Archives: www.samurai-archives.com
  • Origins of the Samurai: www.judoinfo.com/samurai.htm
  • Facts about Samurai: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art Japan/Samurai Exhibit:
    www.clevelandart.org/search/index.asp?Q=samurai
  • Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, CA):
    http://www.janm.org/
  • The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles:
    www.nhm.org
  • the National Museum of Natural History DC):
    www.mnh.si.edu/