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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →