Legacies of the sword : the Kashima-Shinryū and samurai martial culture /
"Western scholars and educators are generally far less familiar with the samurai in his original - and, ostensibly, primary - role as warrior and master of arms than in his other functions as landowner, feudal lord, literateur, or philosopher. Yet any attempt to comprehend fully the samurai wit...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Honolulu, Hawaii :
University of Hawai'i Press
©1997.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvsrj6t |
| Shrnutí: | "Western scholars and educators are generally far less familiar with the samurai in his original - and, ostensibly, primary - role as warrior and master of arms than in his other functions as landowner, feudal lord, literateur, or philosopher. Yet any attempt to comprehend fully the samurai without considering his military abilities and training (bugei) is futile." "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. Legacies of the Sword is the first attempt by a Westerner scholar trained both in bugei and in Japanese studies and historical methodology to discuss this major and compelling component of Japanese culture. It presents a case study of the Kashima-Shinryu, one of the oldest of the extant samurai training organizations, and was written in close collaboration with its current headmaster, Seki Humitake. The volume illuminates the extraordinary complexity of the bugei and the manner in which various physical, technical, psychological, and philosophical factors merge to produce a coherent art that guides the lives of those who practice it."--Jacket |
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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (xv, 227 pages) : illustrations |
| Médium: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585329621 9780585329628 9780824863326 0824863321 0824818474 0824818792 9780824818470 9780824818791 |