Recently after the Age of Samurai debacle, many newbies have been commentating on Nobunaga. Unfortunately, most of the stuff they write or say is mostly false. In addition to, they have not read any of the sources that are now available in English on the net or college libraries. For you newbies out there, I will list several sources for you that are required reading so you do not look like a fool. The sources that I will post are not novels. Most of them are academic works or chronicles.
In no order particular:
Lamers, Jersey P. Japonius Tyrannus. Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2000.
Ota Gyuichi. The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga. Translated by JSA Elisionas and JP Lamers. Leiden:Brill, 2011
Neilson, David D. "Society at War: Eyewitness Accounts of Sixteenth Century Japan." PHD diss., University of Oregon, 2007.
Neilson, David D. Methods of Madness The Last Years of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. 2000.
McMullin, Neil. Buddhism and the State in Sixteenth Century Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Schindewolf, Brandon C. Toki wa Ima. Ohio State University, June 2010.
The Signore, Kunio Tsuji. Translated by Stephen Snyder. Kodansha International. Tokyo, 1989.
Cooper, Michael, SJ. They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
The first five are critical no doubt about it. Without reading them, you will be left far behind from other colleagues and the like. Please read all of them. Trust me. If you do, you will be more prepared to know Nobunaga better than most. Again, the sources I have listed are in English.
Tenka no tame!
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