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Dave Lowry
Written by one of America’s experts on the Japanese martial arts, this title shows that karate is not just a sport or a hobby - it’s a lifetime study toward…
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Essays explore the common principles shared by Japanese calligraphy and the martial arts, using terms from the martial arts as examples to show how calligraphy and the martial arts draw…
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A rollicking debut novel about a young man who gets kicked out of college, becomes a Chinese restaurant chef, and inadvertently gets in the middle of a Chinese gang’s search…
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A view on martial arts today by one of its practitioners and commentators. Topics include entering the martial way, traditional martial arts in modern Western life, the paradoxes and conflicts…
The goals of budo–the martial arts and ways of Japan–lie in refining the body and spirit. The techniques, methods, and rituals of budo can provide invaluable lessons for today’s martial…
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A guide to the practice, history, and etiquette of budo, the study of Japanese martial arts for self-cultivation-written by an American martial arts master
The study of budo, or the…
David Lowry
Blending autobiography and history, one of the only non-Japanese to have trained in a certain school of swordsmanship, recounts his experience as a teenage student of a Japanese master in…
A collection of essays explaining the apparatus, traditions, and etiquette particular to the Japanese martial arts. This work covers the history and tradition of the relationships, gear, and dress that…
Dave Lowry,Jon Thibault
Based on the author’s traditional take on the martial arts in a column called Karate Way and examining the origins of the tonfa or the popularity of mixed-martial arts tournaments…
Maintains that training with the bokken, the wooden training sword used by both ancient samurai and swordsmen, is important on two levels for the modern practitioner: to build the physical…
