A SHORT HISTORY of BATTO-JUTSU in AMERICA (PART 1)

[BIG]

https://www.brooklyn...su-in-america-part-1

 

 

[Toryu2020]

Excellent reading...

[Bazza]

Seconded, thirded, fouthed, fifthed...  As a collector with for the most part no interest in martial arts as a practice I found this a more than excellent read.  Thank you Peter for bringing us to the 'practice' side of collecting,

 

BaZZa.

[mecox]

Very interesting read and detailed coverage of development, history and people. I lived through a lot of this in Australia at the end of the 1980's and through the 1990's.  A worthwhile post Peter.

 

Mal

[mecox]

I have to mention that I got to Part 3 of the Batto-Jutsu in America and in a list of publications found my own book from back in 1997:

 

Iwata Norikazu’s Kiso Iai Kosa was translated in 1995 by Colin Hyakutake Watkin; and in 1997 Malcolm E. Cox’s Iaido: A Handbook; Dr. Friday’s Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture, and Nagayama Kohai’s The Connoisseur's Book of Japanese Swords all came out. Stephen Turnbull’s The Samurai Sourcebook and G. Cameron Hurst’s Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery, both came out in 1998. The decade closed with David Millar’s Samurai Warriors, Scott Shaw’s Samurai Zen, Kenshi Nabeshima’s The Needle and The Sword: Health Strategies of a Samurai Acupuncturist, and Clive Sinclaire’s Samurai: The Weapons and Spirit of the Japanese Warrior on the art and armor of feudal Japan.