Compendium of classical texts from the Tokugawa period.
The Tokugawa period (1603 - 1868) is an epoch of both rapid development and change for the Japanese martial arts. In a time that was largely free of major armed conflicts and in which the samurai ruled the country, philosophical, ethical, political and military concepts were brought together and theoretically grounded, which expressed their incomparable expression in the “double way of brush and sword ”(bunbu-ryôdô).
The present book presents clear evidence of this movement using contemporary texts; supplemented by a contribution to the current state of the sources as well as a short introduction to two large Japanese works on this topic, the ten-volume “Outline of Japanese Martial Arts” (Nihon budô taikei) and the two-volume “History of Military Sciences in Japan” (Nihon heihô shi).
Characteristics:
Editor: Tengu Publishing Wolfgang Ettig
Author: Dr. Julian Braun
Language: German
Hardcover: 144 pages
Format: 23 x 16.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-924862-31-2
