"Rediscovering "Budo"" should be widely welcomed by more serious budo practitioners, as well as interested observers, who are looking for a return to "first principles", who are interested in substance rather than style, and who wish - at least spiritually and emotionally - to understand and, where possible, relate to the mind-set of Japan's unique warrior culture. Knutsen, who has the distinction of being the first European to hold a senior master's licence in the formidable skill of "Iai-jutsu" - the art of "drawing sword" for combat - makes it clear that he is not interested in exploring so-called "super" theories, nor attempting to unravel complicated and "often incomprehensible" definitions of the many teaching concepts employed in "budo".
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Roald Knutsen (1933 - ) was born in Hertfordshire of Anglo-Norwegian parents and educated at The Perse School, Cambridge, and Watford Grammar School. After studying Art and Design he served as a regular in the Intelligence Corps and followed with a successful career in graphic design, choreographing complex medieval combat sequences for a computer film project in England and the USA, and writing. For the past half-century he has practised traditional Kenjutsu, Kendo, Iai-jutsu, and So-jutsu under a succession of famous Japanese masters, having menkyo-kaiden, (senior master's licence), in one of the oldest transmissions of Iai-jutsu, and the rank of 6th dan Renshi in Kendo. He has researched and written extensively about the Japanese warrior traditions and aspects of Japanese history. His is also the author of Japanese Polearms (1963), Rediscovering Budo ( Global Oriental 2004), and Japanese Spears, which he co-authored with his wife Patricia Knutsen (Global Oriental 2004).
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