Samurai

Constantine Nomikos Vaporis teaches Japanese history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he is a Professor of History and Founding Director of the Asian Studies Program. He has received numerous fellowships, including a Fulbright Scholar's Award and an NEH Fellowship for College Teachers. He was awarded UMBC's Presidential Research Professorship (2013-16) and the Lipitz Professorship of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (2019-20); and was selected for the ASIANetwork Speakers Bureau, 2016-20. He received a residential fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies for 2020-21 to complete work on this book. He has collaborated with Ted-Ed on "A Day in the Life of a Teenage Samurai," an animation viewed more than a million and a half times; is the author of a ten-part Audible course "The Real Life of a Japanese Samurai;" and is currently working on a new book, The Black Ships: A Cultural History the Opening of Japan, 1852-54.

• 1. Yamauchi Katsutoyo (1545-1605)--The Rise of a Daimyo 2. Kumazawa Banzan (1619-91)--System Challenger 3. Asano Naganori (1667-1701), Oishi Kuranosuke (1659-1703), and the Ako Incident 4. Tani Tannai (1729-97)--A Samurai and His "Debt Hell" 5. Odano Naotake (1750-80) & Kakizaki Hakyo (1764-1826)--Samurai and the Arts 6. Toyama Heima (1775-1829) & His Son Tamuro (1796-1861)--Samurai & the World of Goods 7. Mori Masana (1803-73)--The Journey of a Fourth Son 8. Yoshida Shoin (1830-59)--Revolutionary Ideologue 9. Niijima Yae (1845-1932)--Gunslinging Daughter of an Aizu Samurai 10. Epilogue: The End of the Samurai