I think Gingetsu Itoh said that while ninja did use Kuji as well as other magical symbols charms and whatnot they were only for the purpose of...
153 bucks... Interesting review though: "The book is published by Global Oriental, which is an imprint of the Dutch Publishing House - Brill, and...
Nope, that's all I got. Sorry kinda vague
Someone asked me if I was planning on translating "Iga Koga Kusarigama Heiho." Has anyone ever heard of this book? Sounds kind of cool.
Just out of curiosity is the Kuki Zensho worth reading? It's 25~45K so if it is a bunch of lineage charts it is liable to become a doorstop.
This kind of dovetails into the area of Kuden. A lot of times the Kuden are seen as super secret teachings when in fact they are transmitted...
Whoever comes to Japan
There are some simple differences i.e. Grabbing/pressing kyusho to throw instead of the Eri or Sode. But compared with knowing how to set up a...
He was Noda City Champion! A Judo background would have been helpful for me when I started as there were a lot of times when i first started...
Hmm.., not sure what that would be. A book? Or just a scrap of something? I should do the third Itoh book eventually though it does seem just...
It is learning as i go! Any other suggestions? The people have to have been dead for more than 50 years...
Wow so it could be true? May have to redouble my efforts and half finish another book...
That whole subject has hardly been touched eh? My last couple of books have been on Koryu arts (except for Senjutsu and Ninjutsu) but Im sort of...
Actually this is one of those books i have had on the back burner for a while. The only reason I haven't been more proactive is that it has...
Yup I recommend the following site for checking meanings of Japanese words: http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1C It has a romaji interface...
謀略 Means making plans to deceive people. Kind of a cool word
Looks like he got Yon Dan
Ninjutsu to Yojutsu started off as a series of articles that ran in the Asahi Newspaper from March to June of 1909, and later collected in book...
everyone has been busy on the one billion Facebook martial arts pages
This is kind of a hip new intro to ninjutsu it seems. Calls the Bansenshukai the Ninja textbook.
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