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This presentation focuses on rationalist aspects of siege warfare in the Nanboku-chō（南北朝）period, or the Northern and Southern Courts period. Although it is popularly believed that samurai were very brave soldiers who did not hesitate to rush the enemy's position, this presentation tries to show their practical methods of minimizing the human toll of war, arguing that such tactics can be found on both attacking and defending sides. When attacking an enemy castle, samurai in this era built multiple confronting castles called mukaijiro（向城）. These castles, however, were not designed to make a frontal attack but intended to cut the enemy’s supply lines. Fearing that they would suffer increased damage, samurai often chose to starve the enemy: they besieged their castle and attacked the enemy's transportation party. They employed the hit-and-run tactics and immediately retreated to their mukaijiro as soon as the enemy's combat troops made a sortie to help their transportation party. The defending side also acted in a rather non-aggressive manner. Reinforcements named usirozume（後詰）the besieged army called for were deployed behind enemy lines. Their main task, however, was not to annihilate the enemy, but to put psychological pressure on them. Indeed, what usirozume did was only to scare the attacking side by blocking their escape route and to convince them of a withdrawal. This presentation concludes that samurai in this period were rationalist who preferred the endurance strategy to the short decisive battle strategy.

목차

　Tactics of attacking sides
　Tactics of defending sides
　The offensive measures of attacking sides
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저자

• GOZA Yuichi [ International Research Center ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  동북아시아문화학회 국제학술대회 [國際學術大會]

• 간기

  반년간

• 수록기간

  ~2022

• 십진분류

  KDC 910 DDC 950