![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mow down everyone universally, without discriminating between young and old, men and women, clergy and the laity-high ranking soldiers on the battlefield, that goes without saying, but also the hill folk, down to the poorest and meanest-and send the heads to Japan. After the first effort had been blunted, Hideyoshi sent in a second wave with the order If you've read the one review, then you've read the other.Īs if the Japanese depredations on the Asian continent in the 1930's and 40's were not enough, not to mention their decades long colonization of Korea - complete with absolute suppression of the Korean language and culture - in place already before the formal annexation of Korea by the Japanese Empire in 1910, there was an even more brutal precedent.įrom 1592 to 1598 the Japanese invaded the Korean peninsula under the command of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the man who re-unified Japan after a long period of disintegration and civil war, in the largest scale conflict on Earth of the 16th century, involving some 300,000 Japanese and 160,000 Chinese soldiers as well as nearly every man, woman and child on the peninsula. Swope's A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598 (2009) and Stephen Turnbull's Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War 1592 -1598 (2002) into one. Nota bene: I am combining my reviews of Kenneth M. ![]()
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