Komiku Nihon no Rekishi 1
Daisuke Hayakawa, Toru Sugita with historian Kaku Kozo.
Pages 118
Publsihed in 2007.
Last week I purchased a children's history book on Oda Nobunaga. Normally, I do not buy children's books, but it was on sale for a dollar at Book-Off. This book covers the history of Nobunaga and it does a decent job covering his youth to the Honnoji Incident. It is easy to read (Japanese) and the artwork is modernized for the present generation. The book starts off with Nobunaga as a young child experimenting with long spears, later with guns, and his father's death. It covers the meeting with Saito Dosan, marriage to Nohime, death of Nubuyuki, and Okehazama. The book moves forward with the conquest of Mino, Battle of Anegawa, Hiei-zan, his dealings with Ashikaga Yoshiaski and Azai Nagamasa, Ishiyama Honganji, Battle of Nagashino, Azuchi Castle, his use of iron clad ships, and the Honnoji. This book is extremely general and it covers several topics in a page or two. To be fair, there are books in this series that cover Okehazama and Nagashino. I would recommend this book to those who have Japanese children.
Tenka no tame!
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