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The Book of Samurai - The Fundamental Teachings (Hardcover)
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The Book of Samurai - The Fundamental Teachings (Hardcover)
Series: Book of Samurai, 1
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THE FIRST COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF A SAMURAI SCHOOL CURRICULUM, THE
BOOK OF SAMURAI SERIES IS A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE THEORY AND
PRACTICE OF SAMURAI WARFARE. Book One: Fundamental Teachings
reveals to the samurai student the basic traditions of Natori-Ryu,
the renowned school of war founded in Japan in the sixteenth
century. It offers a translation of two secret scrolls. The first,
Heika Jodan, contains 290 lessons for samurai during times of
peace, expanding students' martial abilities and preparing them
mentally and tactically for the conflicts to come. The second
scroll, Ippei Yoko, moves the student onto the field of battle,
providing guidance for those taking up arms for the first time.
Written by master tactician Natori Masazumi, the first two
Natori-Ryu documents give an in-depth account of samurai skills and
actual practice, opening up the lost world of these Japanese
warriors to all readers interested in martial arts and the arts of
war in general.In 1654 Natori Masazumi began his service under the
powerful Kishu-Tokugawa clan. Faced with a decline in tactical and
military prowess, and with a lack of wars to refine soldiery, he
set about collecting a vast array of samurai arts into an assembly
of scrolls, moulding and expanding his family traditions to make
Natori-Ryu the premier warfare school of its time. He developed
Natori-Ryu beyond its original focus on tactical and medical
subjects, including, for example, the arts of the shinobi secret
agents and of the military school Kusunoki-Ryu in his collated
teachings. He also undertook the colossal project of compiling a
samurai encyclopaedia, cataloguing arms, armour and other important
tools of samurai life. All this was done with the aim of
maintaining the true skills of the warrior class before its members
evolved from men of prowess into mere bureaucrats.
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