Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga

Jurgis Saulius Algirdas Elisonas, Ph.D. (1969) in History and Far Eastern Languages, Harvard University, is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of History at Indiana University. He has published extensively on Japanese political, cultural, and international history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Jeroen Pieter Lamers, Ph.D. (1998) in Literature, Leiden University, is Chief of Staff at the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture, and Innovation. His publications include Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered (Hotei, 2000) and other works on early modern Japanese history and culture.

"Experts on early modern Japanese history will welcome this book, while more casual readers may find it a bit dense for their passing entertainment. Nobunaga is very probably the least well known of the three giant figures (with Hideyoshi and Tokugawa) of later-16th-century Japan who set in motion the events that produced a unified country under the Tokugawa family's leadership after 1600. Helpful scholarly aids and refinements fill the volume. The translation is clear, the footnotes are substantive, and the supporting text analyses are often fascinating. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and scholars." -- R. B. Lyman Jr., emeritus, Simmons College, in: Choice (January 2012)