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Pages: 233
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-01 - Publisher: Via Media Publishing
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Language: en
Pages: 397
Pages: 397
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-31 - Publisher: Freelance Academy Press
Koryu, literally, 'old flow from the past,' refers to Japanese martial traditions that predate the sweeping cultural changes that followed the Meiji Restoration
Language: en
Pages: 265
Pages: 265
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press
This landmark work provides a wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the traditional Asian martial arts. Most of the contributors to the volume are practitione
Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-07-11 - Publisher: Yale University Press
This unique history of Japanese armed martial arts--the only comprehensive treatment of the subject in English--focuses on traditions of swordsmanship and arche
Language: en
Pages: 281
Pages: 281
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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