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Bushido The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

This book was first published in 1900 and was written in English rather than Japanese. Its purpose was to inform the West as to the ‘true’ nature of the Japanese people at a time when Japanese society itself was undergoing … Continue reading →

May 30, 2017

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Training the Samurai Mind A Bushido Sourcebook Translated and edited by Thomas Cleary

This is a collection of writings taken from various Japanese authors ranging from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Topics they cover range from psychology to foreign policy to religion to history to internal administration to, well, almost everything that … Continue reading →

May 23, 2017

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Kodo Ancient Ways by Kensho Furuya

This book is a collection of articles originally published in the magazine, Martial Arts Training, between 1988 and 1995. The author is both an aikido practitioner (Aiki Kai), and a Zen Buddhist priest and his biases are apparent and clearly … Continue reading →

May 16, 2017

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Secrets of the Samurai The Martial Arts of Feudal Japan by Oscar Ratti / Adele Westbrook

These authors first made a name for themselves in martial arts literature with their book: Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere, (I will do a review of that work at some future point), whose illustrations were illegally incorporated into almost every … Continue reading →

May 9, 2017

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Why won’t they show me this very narrow thing I’m focusing on and then I’ll be able to do it perfectly?

I could possibly shorten it but in some ways it also reflects what’s going on in our heads; looking at something very narrow, very isolated and without a context expecting it to magically make everything alright with a technique. Trouble … Continue reading →

May 8, 2017

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Sword and Brush The Spirit of the Martial Arts by Dave Lowry

Probably best to state my biases up front: I much prefer books such as these over the how to do technique, picture books, (though we will be looking at some of those also in future reviews), and I like the … Continue reading →

May 2, 2017

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