Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture

Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture
ISBN-10
0824818792
ISBN-13
9780824818791
Category
Sports & Recreation
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
1997-07-01
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Authors
Karl F. Friday, Seki Humitake

Description

Western scholars are generally far less familiar with the samurai in his original role as warrior and master of arms than in his other functions as landowner, feudal lord, litterateur, or philosopher. Karl Friday examines samurai martial culture from a historical and worldview in this study.

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