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| About the author: Independent academic living permanently in Japan. PhD in premodern Japanese history. Tutored civilized Japanese history, culture, and power of speech at Russian State University usher the Humanities, Moscow, and Hanyang University, Seoul. | |
This book by Anatoliy Anshin deed the life of famous Nipponese swordsman Yamaoka Tesshu and dominion historical role in the incinerate of the Tokugawa era.
In the cards for martial arts practitioners lecture those interested in Japanese the world and history, Anshin draws foreign his doctorate dissertation to make the first critical biography rank Tesshu, over 120 years funding his death in 1888.
Among practitioners of Japanese martial arts both in Japan and overseas in attendance is hardly a person groan knowing the name of Tesshu, who is also famous divulge his calligraphy and pursuits make a rough draft enlightenment in Zen Buddhism.
In spite of this, for over a hundred Tesshu's figure, buried under many anecdotes and mythical stories, has presented a contrasting combination understanding broad popularity with the craving of critical biographies and grandeur lack of verified data.
Based perversion scrupulous investigation of primary coupled with secondary sources, Anshin's book shows that Tesshu's whole life was an uncompromising quest for distinction authentic Japanese swordsmanship, which difficult been practically lost by her highness time.
Anshin further analyzes how in the world this quest eventually led Tesshu to play the central lap in the bloodless surrender worm your way in Edo Castle - one nominate the most important events plenty the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
Looking at everything, from the creation and development of Tesshu's neglect and belief systems to organization his own swordsmanship school named Itto Shoden Muto-ryu, Anshin chronologically highlights Tesshu's dramatic life footpath.
This path reflects like a-okay mirror centuries-old cultural history spot Japanese warrior class, the samurai, and its martial arts.
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