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Tables of Contents for Samurai Heraldry
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Glossary of Main Terms
The Functions of Heraldry
3
2
Identification of friend and foe
identification of individual exploits
hereditary designs
army organisation
The Use of the Mon
5
2
Family badges
motifs and colours - flags
imperial heraldry
Early Heraldry
7
6
Hata jirushi
the Taira and the Minamoto
the mon on field curtains and flags
shields
commemoration of heroic deeds
the problem of retrospective designs: the Chiba - Kumagai Naozane
heraldry and the Mongol invasions - Takezaki Suenaga
14th-15th Century Heraldry
13
4
The Nanbokucho Wars: Kusunoki Masashige - Nawa Nagatoshi
inscribed flags - Asuke Jiro
the Ashikaga shoguns
the Akamatsu
the Koga-kubo: Ashikaga Shigeuji - Chiba Tanenao
heraldry as personal display: sode jirushi and kasa jirushi
15th-16th Century Heraldry
17
8
The Onin War and the Sengoku Period
the heraldry of old and new warlords: Ouchi Yoshitaka - Hojo Somn
larger armies and irregular infantry-development of the ashigaru
heraldry and army organisation
the nobori
the sashimono
`Great' & `Lesser' Standards
25
6
the o uma jirushi and ko uma jirushi
three-dimensional standards
examples: Uesugi Kenshin - Takeda Shingen - Tokugawa Ieyasu - Oda
Nobunaga - Toyotomi Hideyoshi - Konishi Yukinaga - Kato Kiyomasa - Tsugaru Tamenobu, etc.
Heraldry on helmets
elite samurai and the horo
The Standard-Bearer In Battle
31
12
Opportunities for feats of courage: following the flag - Iida Kakubei - Fukushuima Masanori - Kuki Shirobei
Ashigaru heraldry
Religious Symbolism in Heraldry
43
5
Shinto and Buddhist motifs
Christian symbols
Heraldry and The Tokugawa Shoguns
48
6
The formalised system of the Edo Period
heraldry and the common people
the sun disc
the hereditary principle
The Heraldry of Samurai Armies for Wargamers and Modellers
54
3
The Plates
57
7
Index
64