By Karl F. Friday
Western students and educators are normally some distance much less acquainted with the samurai in his unique - and, ostensibly, basic - position as warrior and grasp of hands than in his different services as landowner, feudal lord, literateur, or thinker. but any try to understand totally the samurai with no contemplating his army talents and coaching (bugei) is futile. Karl Friday combines the result of approximately twenty years of fieldwork and archival study to envision samurai martial tradition from a huge viewpoint: as a ancient phenomenon, as a worldview, and as a approach of actual, non secular, and ethical schooling. Legacies of the Sword is the 1st try through a Westerner pupil informed either in bugei and in eastern reviews and ancient technique to debate this significant and compelling component to eastern tradition. It offers a case research of the Kashima-Shinryu, one of many oldest of the extant samurai education agencies, and was once written in shut collaboration with its present headmaster, Seki Humitake. the amount illuminates the extreme complexity of the bugei and the way during which a number of actual, technical, mental, and philosophical elements merge to provide a coherent artwork that courses the lives of these who perform it.
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