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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Friday, Karl F. Legacies of the sword. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)606950389 Online version: Friday, Karl F. Legacies of the sword. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)608535509 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
関, 文威(1937- ) ; Karl F Friday; Fumitake Seki |
ISBN: | 0824818474 9780824818470 0824818792 9780824818791 |
OCLC Number: | 35269921 |
Description: | xv, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Heritage and Tradition. Ryuha and the Origins of the Bugei. The Kashima Grand Shrine and Takemikazuchi-no-Mikoto. The Three Founders. The Students of Kamiizumi Ise-no-kami and the Shihanke Line. The Kunii House and the Soke Line. The Kashima-Shinryu as an Organization -- 3. The Philosophy and Science of Combat. Shinbu and the Martial Way. The Framework of the Art: The Fivefold Laws and the Eight Divine Coordinates. Applied Constructs -- 4. The Martial Path. Kata and Pattern Practice. Historical Problems and Criticisms of Kata and Pattern Practice. The Kashima-Shinryu Kata. Text and Written Transmission. Meditation and the Integration of Body, Mind, and Spirit -- App. 1. The Kashima-Shinryu hyoho denki -- App. 2. The Kunii-ke keizu -- App. 3. The Kashima-Shinryu menkyo kaiden mokuroku -- App. 4. Constitution of the Kashima-Shinryu Federation of Martial Sciences -- App. 5. Constitution of the Kashima-Shinryu Federation of North America. |
Responsibility: | Karl F. Friday, with Seki Humitake. |
Abstract:
With verve and wit, Karl Friday combines the results of nearly two decades of fieldwork and archival research to examine samurai martial culture from a broad perspective: as a historical phenomenon, as a worldview, and as a system of physical, spiritual, and moral education.
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"This study is refreshingly free of jargon and inscrutable or pretentious philosophizing. Instead, Friday presents this history of the samurai in cool, clear terms that will appeal to more than a select band of academics.... An excellent book." Read more...
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