Keiko Shokon is the third volume in a series that demystifies the rare and often misunderstood fighting arts of the Japanese warrior. Do these arts still have relevance in a modern technological world? How are they being preserved? What are the pitfalls for practitioners struggling to maintain these arts in a culture so foreign to that of their origins? These questions are discussed by a unique group of practitioner/writers.
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Wonderful Collection of Essays on a Interesting Subject....,
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This review is from: Keiko Shokon: Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan (Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan, 3) (Paperback)
I have been reading English language books about different aspects of traditional Japanese culture for the last eight years. I have read the other two books in the Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan series Sword and Spirit Vol. 2 and Koryu Bujutsu Vol. 1 and found them very informative and well written. It wasn't a big surprise when I found the book "Keiko Shokon: Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan Vol. 3" edited by Diane Skoss to be a wonderful collection of deep and well written essays about the traditional Japanese martial arts. The collective term for these martial arts is bujutsu in the Japanese language. These traditional martial arts outlined and discussed in the assays were the direct ancestors of today's more commonly know modern Japanese martial arts such as Kendo. These modern Japanese martial arts are collectedly referred to as gendai budo in Japanese. One essay I found practically useful and educational was the one entitled "Itto-ryu Kenjutsu: An Overview by Meik Skoss. In it the writer does a wonderful job of discussing all of the many different lines and styles of Itto-ryu kenjutsu and how they have developed and how there individual styles had been synthesized or directly influence modern Kendo. This I think should be standard reading for any long time practitioner of Kendo so that he/she would have a more complete understanding of the cultural and historical context that lead to the development of their martial art.
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Not a technical book,
This review is from: Keiko Shokon: Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan (Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan, 3) (Paperback)
All is in the title. Collection of interviews, thinks about martial arts - no opinion - for those who like
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Japanese classical martial arts,
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Diane Skoss has done the field of martial arts a great favor by assembling this collection of articles by people well-versed in their fields of Japanese classical martial arts. All the articles are wide-ranging and informative. This volume, in conjunction with the other two edited by her are almost a "must have" for anyone interested in this field.
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