Big('s) Discoveries

[BIG]

Where have all the great swords gone..

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/11/archives/antiques-150-enthusiasts-of-Japanese-swords-convene-in-dallas.html?searchResultPosition=6

 

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[BIG]

Growing up during a time of war..

 

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2019/06/23/our-lives/buddhist-priest-reflects-growing-shiraishi-island-time-war/#.XksEM-vGKK0

 

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[Ken-Hawaii]

Interesting. Thanks.

[BIG]

Nagashino sences of battle

 

https://www.tokugawa-art-museum.jp/en/exhibits/planned/items/201907合戦図new.pdf

 

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[BIG]

Taryu-jidai

 

http://uk.hokushinittoryu.com/taryu-jiai/

 

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[Ken-Hawaii]

About 70 years ago, a meeting of very-senior Sensei was convened at the Kodokan to discuss how to judge all budoka on a level playing field. What came out of that meeting was the concept of Seiteigata, or the common set of kata, that can be used for fair grading of a budoka's skill, no matter which ryūha (school) he or she was trained in.

 

For example, Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei (ZNKR) Iaido (制定) has a total of 12 kata that all iaidoka must perform to be awarded rank. So, rather than ryūha-yaburi, where a ryūha could be literally annihilated, or even dōjō-yaburi, where the other school's training hall was destroyed, martial arts now had a "gentler" way of grading...an excellent idea right after World War II.

 

Good find, Peter.

[BIG]

Gunbai blog..

 

https://gunbai-militaryhistory.blogspot.com

 

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[Ken-Hawaii]

Interesting article, but the author isn't exactly an expert on Nihonto.

[BIG]

The war dead in modern Japan

 

https://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/english/outline/publication/ronbun/ronbun5/pdf/102006.pdf

 

 

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[BIG]

Story of the Shonentai youth corps..by Paul Martin

 

http://Japan-forward.com/samurai-spirit-of-fukushima-the-shonentai-youth-corps-of-nihonmatsu-castle/

 

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[Ken-Hawaii]

Paul always writes well.

[Stephen]

Nothing we havent seen before but this lad does it well. Also good to hear pronunciation different parts of the koshirae. I have to work on my tsuka.

[BIG]

Reader with sources in translation..

 

https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gj/lehre/unterrichtsmaterialien/Readergj/gj2/reader_sose00_gesamt.pdf

 

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[BIG]

Concept of territory in Edo and Meiji periods..

 

https://www.jiia-jic.jp/en/resourcelibrary/pdf/Yanagihara_Some_Thoughts_on_the_Concept_of_Territory_in_the_Late_Edo_and_Early_Meiji_Periods01.pdf

 

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[BIG]

Pilgrimage in Japan..

 

https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/fub188/22680/bsa_049_03.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

 

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[Ken-Hawaii]

I think it will be awhile before we see many pilgrimages, unless they're lemmings.Yeah, I know that's a myth, too, but the disease isn't.

[BIG]

Changes of social classes during the Tokugawa period..

 

https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/125171/1/ecb0031_056.pdf

 

Besr

[Ken-Hawaii]

Interesting, & much isn't at all what I've found in my studies.

[Ganko]

Very interesting .

[BIG]

Mabiki..

 

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/kjm1952/30/4/30_4_155/_pdf

 

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[Ken-Hawaii]

Wow! Never heard about that before.

[BIG]

Children of the mist..

 

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/03/11/books/children-of-the-mist-shikoku-iya-valley/#.Xm0iyuvGKrU

 

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[Ken-Hawaii]

I've been there - beautiful place.

[BIG]

Weddings of shogun's daughters..

 

https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=ealc

 

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[BIG]

Memorial exhibition..

 

https://www.city.hagi.lg.jp/hagihaku/event/0709shokasonjuku150/150flier_eng.pdf

 

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[Ken-Hawaii]

"...and failed to be killed"? An odd turn of phrase.

[BIG]

Art of the Japanese sword and shinto..

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J7o4I73pnvg

 

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[BIG]

Haiku in english..

 

https://mainichi.jp/english/haiku/1

 

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[BIG]

Samurai inspired kitchen knives ...

 

https://soranews24.com/2020/04/06/crowdfunded-samurai-sword-inspired-kitchen-knives-now-available-for-general-sale/

 

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[Ken-Hawaii]

Not typical sushi knives.