Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga.

This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history.

When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family—and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery. Skinny, small, and unskilled in the warrior arts, he nevertheless escaped and learned the ways of the samurai. When the time came for the Minamoto clan to rise up against their enemies, Yoshitsune answered the call. His daring feats and impossible bravery earned him immortality.


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Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga.

This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history.

When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family—and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery. Skinny, small, and unskilled in the warrior arts, he nevertheless escaped and learned the ways of the samurai. When the time came for the Minamoto clan to rise up against their enemies, Yoshitsune answered the call. His daring feats and impossible bravery earned him immortality.


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Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

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Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

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Overview

Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga.

This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history.

When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family—and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery. Skinny, small, and unskilled in the warrior arts, he nevertheless escaped and learned the ways of the samurai. When the time came for the Minamoto clan to rise up against their enemies, Yoshitsune answered the call. His daring feats and impossible bravery earned him immortality.


From the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781607348481
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc.
Publication date: 02/02/2016
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 5 MB
Age Range: 12 Years

About the Author

PAMELA S. TURNER is the author of Life on Earth—and Beyond, The Dolphins of Shark Bay (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and the Orbis Pictus Honor Book The Frog Scientist (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Pamela lives in Oakland, California.

Back in college GARETH HINDS sketched legendary scenes from Yoshitsune’s life—just for fun. Today he is the creator of highly acclaimed graphic-novel adaptions of Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Odyssey, Beowulf, and other classics (Candlewick). Gareth lives in Washington D.C.

Read an Excerpt

Few warriors are as famous as the Japanese samurai. We rememberthose beautiful swords and those fearsome helmets. Werecall, with both horror and fascination, how some chose to endtheir own lives. But no one can understand the Japanese samuraiwithout knowing Minamoto Yoshitsune.Yoshitsune’s story unfolds in the late twelfth century,during the adolescence of the samurai. Yes, cultures have theiryouth, maturity, and old age, just as people do. During Yoshitsune’slifetime the samurai awakened. Their culture was bold,rebellious, and eager to flex its muscle. The samurai would ultimatelydestroy Japan’s old way of life and forge a new oneusing fire and steel and pain.Yoshitsune was at the very heart of this samurai rising.Hostage, runaway, fugitive, rebel, and hero, he became themost famous warrior in Japanese history. The reason is simple:Yoshitsune was the kind of man other samurai longed to be.

Table of Contents

Nuclear Power Plant Simulation Session.- Experience with Simulation of Nuclear Systems on Parallel Processing Computer Systems.- A Pump Model for Use in Real-Time Simulation.- Hydraulic Network Modelling for Real-Time Power Plant Simulation with Computer Aided Code Generation.- Software Tools Session.- SIPA, a Training and Engineering Simulator and AGLAE, a Flexible Workshop for Model Generation.- An Environment for Parallel Structuring of Fortran Programs.- Advanced Modular Simulation Techniques for Nuclear Power Plants.- Practical Experience with Software Tools to Assess and Improve the Quality of Existing Nuclear Analysis and Safety Codes.- Nuclear Core and Power Plant Simulation on High Performance Parallel Computer Systems.- Artificial Intelligence Session.- Knowledge-Based Systems to Support Dynamic Process Simulation.- Computational Fluid Dynamics Session.- Two Phase Flow Analysis Capability of Advanced Computer Codes.- Finite Element Weak Statement CFD Algorithms for Fluid-Thermal System Analysis.- Neutron Kinetics Session.- Real-Time Advanced Nuclear Reactor Core Model.- The Validity of the Point Kinetics Model During Reactor Start-Up.- Axial Flux Difference on Beijing Nuclear Power Plant Simulator.- Plant Analyser Session.- APROS Nuclear Plant Analyser.- Computer Based Education Session.- Pressurised Water Reactor Simulation in the Training Environment.- A Real-Time Core Model for Nuclear Power Plant Simulators.- Nuclear Waste Session.- Ground Water Flow Analysis of Potential Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Sites Using Electrical Circuit Analogies.
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