Danish Traditional Kendo Federation
To Preserve the Classical Martial Ways of Kendo

KENDO LITERATURE

Danish Traditional Kendo Federation recommends the following literature to the serious reader, who wishes historical knowledge about the Japanese budo traditions. Students who search for techniques will not find this subject in the recommended literature.

  Further description:
  Classical Bujutsu. Volume 1
  by Donn F. Draeger:
  Weatherhill, 1973.


  Further description:
  Classical Budo. Volume 2
  by Donn F. Draeger:
  Weatherhill, 1973.


  Further description:
  Modern Bujutsu and Budo. Volume 3
  by Donn F. Draeger:
  Weatherhill, 1974.


  Further description:
  Kendo in Japanese Martial Culture
  by Jeffrey Dann:
  Ph.D. thesis,
  University of Washington, 1978.


  Further description:
  Rediscovering Budo
  by Roald Knutsen:
  Global Oriental, 2004.





  Further description:
  Koryu Bujutsu
  Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan
  Edited by Diane Skoss:
  Koryu Books Berkeley Heights, 1997.


  Further description:
  Sword Spirit
  Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan
  Edited by Diane Skoss:
  Koryu Books Berkeley Heights, 1997.


  Further description:
  Keiko Shokon
  Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan
  Edited by Diane Skoss:
  Koryu Books Berkeley Heights, 1997.


  Further description:
  Samurai, warfare and the state in early
  medieval Japan
  by Karl F. Friday:
  Routledge, 2004.


  Further description:
  The Catalpa Bow
  by Carmen Blacker:
  London George Allan & Unwin Ltd, 1975.


  Further description:
  Classical Fighting Arts of Japan
  by Serge Mol:
  Kodansha International, 2001.
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