DANISH TRADITIONAL KENDO FEDERATION |
LITERATURE |
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DESCRIPTION Evolved amid the incessant warfare of medieval Japan, bujutsu, or "martial arts", provided the warrior with the technical and psychological training that prepared him to use his weapons in actual combat. Classical Bujutsu emphasizes the intensely practical nature of these martial arts. The author describes sixteen major forms of bujutsu and employing a variety of weapons. |
AUTHOR Donald "Donn" Frederick Draeger (1922-1982) was a U.S. Marine Corps officer and a historian of martial arts disciplines, in which he held a variety of expert ranks and teaching licenses. Draeger gained membership to Japan's oldest cultural organization for the study and preservation of classical martial arts and ways, the Nihon Kobudo Shinkokai and author of many books on fighting arts of Asia. The most significant studies of the Japanese martial tradition and its combative systems come from the researches of Draeger. Basing his work on first-hand experience, participant-observation, and interviews with leading contemporary practitioners, Draeger is the first author to present a general specific features of organization, philosophy, and training methodology. Presented in development order Draeger's trilogy Classical Bujutsu, Classical Budo, and Modern Bujutsu and Budo are the most complete volumes on the Japanese martial tradition in English. Furthermore Draeger successfully gave lectures on Japanese martial culture at several universities. |
