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The Demon’s Sermon on the Martial Arts by Issai Chozanshi

“How could there be no one else in the world who knows what I know? Secret things are for the sake of beginners. If they were not kept secret, beginners would not believe in them. This is one of the … Continue reading →

June 27, 2017

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The Japanese Sword The Soul of the Samurai by Gregory Irvine

Some weeks back I spoke about one of the first martial arts books I ever read, this week it is the last. Sensei Brinkhurst gave me this particular book during his recent visit, as he had just finished reading it … Continue reading →

June 20, 2017

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The Spirit of Aikido by Kisshomaru Ueshiba

This is one of the first martial arts books I ever owned, so it has been over a quarter of a century since I read it; my recollection of its content may not be as fresh as it is with … Continue reading →

June 13, 2017

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The Martial Arts of Ancient Greece Modern Fighting Techniques from the Age of Alexander by Kostas Dervenis and Nektarios Lykiardopoulos

Given my academic background, how could I resist reading this book? The book aims to rediscover the martial arts of the ancient Mediterranean and analyse those techniques in the light of similar contemporary applications, it finishes off with an examination … Continue reading →

June 6, 2017

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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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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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Samurai: An Illustrated History by Mitsuo Kure

I like this book, it has lots of pictures and is semi unique in being a general book in English about the samurai that was not written by Stephen Turnball. While not a specialist book by any means, it does … Continue reading →

April 25, 2017

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