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Karl Friday

Premodern Japan; social history; Samurai culture

Professor
Ph.D. Stanford 1989

Office: 324 LeConte
Office Hours: Anytime when not teaching
Phone: (706) 542-2537

kfriday@uga.edu

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Author of Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan (Stanford U Press, 1992), Legacies of the Sword: the Kashima Shinryu & Samurai Martial Culture (U of Hawaii P, 1997), and Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan (Routledge, 2004). Professor Friday's latest book is called The First Samurai: Taira Masakado & His World (John Wiley & Sons).

Research and Teaching Interests

[Ancient & Medieval]
[War and Diplomacy]
[Asia]
[Cultural & Intellectual]
[Film and History]
[Political & Legal]

Selected Publications

"They Were Soldiers Once: The Early Samurai and The Imperial Court," in War and State Building in Medieval Japan, ed. John Ferejohn and Frances Rosenbluth (Stanford University Press, 2009)

"'What a Difference a Bow Makes': Chivalry and the Early Japanese Warrior Ethic in Comparative Perspective," in Currents of Medieval Japan, ed. G. M. Berger, A. E. Goble, L. F. Harrington, and G. C. Hurst III (Figueroa Press, 2009)

The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado (John Wiley, 2008) [More Info]

Samurai, Warfare, and the State in Early Medieval Japan (Routledge, 2004) [More Info]

Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture (University of Hawaii Press, 1997) with Seki Humitake [More Info]

Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan (Stanford University Press, 1992) [More Info]

Courses Taught

HIST2701H: World Civilizations I (Honors) [Syllabus]

HIST3601: Pre-Modern Japan [Syllabus]

HIST3602: Modern Japan [Syllabus]

HIST4630: The Golden Age of the Heian Court [Syllabus]

HIST4990: Senior Seminar [Syllabus]

HIST7705: Colloquium in World History [Syllabus]

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