Lords of the samurai : the legacy of a daimyo family / by Yoko Woodson ; with the assistance of Melissa M. Rinne ; essays by Takeuchi Junʼichi, Thomas Cleary, and Deborah Clearwaters ; additional contributions by Abe Junko [and others] ; prefaces by Hosokawa Morihiro and Jay Xu ; translations by Thomas Cleary and Melissa M. Rinne.

• Foreword: warriors and the literary arts / Takeuchi Junʼichi -- Emergence and development of the samurai / Yoko Woodson -- Bushidō : the culture of the Samurai / Thomas Cleary.

• 'Lords of the Samurai' illuminates the private and public lives of the daimyo by focusing on approximately 160 works from the Hosokawa family collection housed in the Eisei-Bunko Museum in Tokyo, the Kumamoto Castle and the Kumamoto Municipal Museum in Kyushu. 

Ämnesord

Samurai  -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Decorative arts  -- Japan -- History -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Art, Japanese  -- Private collections -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Art, Asian  -- Private collections -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Personnamn

Hosokawa family -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.