Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture

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University of Hawaii Press, 1.7.1997 - 248 sivua
Western scholars and educators are generally far less familiar with the samurai in his original-and, ostensibly, primary-role as warrior and masters of arms than in his other functions as landowner, feudal lord, literature, or philosopher. Yet, any attempt to comprehend fully the samurai without considering his military abilities and training (bugei) is futile. 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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Introduction
1
Heritage and Tradition
12
The Three Founders
24
The Students of Kamiizumi Isenokami and
32
The Kunii House and the Sōke Line
39
The KashimaShinryu as an Organization
50
The Philosophy and Science of Combat
58
The Fivefold Laws and
67
Historical Problems and Criticisms of Kata and Pattern
108
The KashimaShinryu Kata
127
Texts and Written Transmission
137
Meditation and the Integration of Body Mind and Spirit
151
Epilogue
161
Appendixes
165
KashimaShinryu Organization
178
Notes
191

Comparison of the rates of application of power of
71
Interplay of attack and counterattack in the context
77
Applied Constructs
82
The Martial Path
100

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