How did one man’s determination to get paid end up producing one of the best records we have of a pivotal moment in Japanese history?
Sources
Conlan, Thomas. In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga’s Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions
Yamamura, Kozo, ed. The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol 3: Medieval Japan.
Princeton University’s website on the scrolls, which has some cool contextual information and detail shots.
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