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These pages reflect the dual nature of the samurai, the pen and the sword. The philosophical background of the martial arts has often been down played in the west. As a classicist of martial arts, I believe the philosophical foundation is not a part, but the root of all martial arts.
Tenets/Creed/Kanji/The Way of Strategy/Dojo
Kun:
Meaning of Hakama Pleats
The meaning of the handfolding of various marital
arts; the
The Kuji-kiri, or nine cuts.
A Book of Five
Rings, by Miyamoto
Musashi.
Lao Tse's Tao Te Ching
Sun Tzu's, The
Art of War.
Oriental Influences:
Dictionary
of Zen and Buddhist Terms.
The
Journal of Buddhist Ethics
Current
Issue
The
Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library
Tibetan
Buddhism newsgroup.
Zen Philosophy
newsgroup.
Martial Arts:
The Budo Arts, Klaus Steinberger's WWW Pages.
Kenjustu/Iaido:
Noble House Ken-Jutsu,
Shin-Kage Ryu.
The Japanese Sword Arts: Kendo, Kenjutsu, Iaido/Iaijutsu, Al Bowers' WWW Pages.
Dojo
Directory, world wide.
The Iaido Electric
Dojo, courtesy of Kim Talyor of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Ten sections
covering various subjects of equiette and katas.
The Iaido Newsletter,
current issues, past issues, and excerpts from past issues.
An Iaido Bibliography of
major texts.
Iaido Magazines, Journals and
Articles.
OBI, The Official
Newsletter of Musashi [UK], 1995 issues.
Ki-Ken-Tai-Icchi
Kendo Home Page, Helsinki, Finland.
Karate:
On-line terminology database of CyberDojo
CyberDojo On-line Bibliography and Book Reviews.
International
Association of Martial Arts
Martial Arts
newsgroup.
Chito-Ryu Home
Page, courtesy of John Shaw, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
ChitoNet Newsletters,
1995.
National Taekwon-Do
Federation
Judo:
Judo
Page, UC Martial Arts Network.
Sumo:
Sumo
Info Page of Jerry Yang.
Sumo
Wrestling Page of Noriko Oshima.
Stick Fighting from the Philipines:
FAQs
Neil
Gendzwill's Sword FAQ, a text version.
K.
Jartan's HTML version of Gendzwill's Sword FAQ
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