Overview
Offers historical, cultural, and political account in English of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship. This book shows how this martial art evolved through a recurring process of "inventing tradition," which served the changing ideologies and needs of Japanese warriors and governments over the course of history.
- | Author: Alexander C. Bennett
- | Publisher: University of California Press
- | Publication Date: Jul 31, 2015
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9780520284371
- | ISBN-10: 0520284372
