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Can I read Legacies of the sword : the Kashima-Shinryū and samurai martial culture on EtoBox?
Legacies of the sword : the Kashima-Shinryū and samurai martial culture by Karl F. Friday, Humitake Seki is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Legacies of the sword : the Kashima-Shinryū and samurai martial culture about?
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.
Who reads Legacies of the sword : the Kashima-Shinryū and samurai martial culture?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Karl F. Friday, Humitake Seki
- Publisher
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780824818470
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sports, History, Anthropology
- Rating
- 4.13 / 5 (31 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14