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Kurikara By Evans J.M. (Book)

Kurikara By Evans J.M. (Book)
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Kurikara: The Sword and the Serpent sets out the eight basic principles of swordsmanship common to all Japanese sword schools, emphasizing the cultivation of power and mental focus. Accomplished martial artist John Evans provides practical examples from his experience with the sword arts as well as Mikkyo and shugendo (mountain asceticism). In Mikkyo - Japanese esoteric Buddhism - the dragon Kurikara symbolizes the internal energy developed through sword practice. Kurikara is a manifestation of the fierce bodhisattva Fudo Myo O, the patron of ascetics and warriors in Japan, who uses his sword to destroy delusions and sever attachments. Fudo’s sword represents the gaining of discriminative power and decisiveness - the ability to cut through illusion and attachment. This leads to the development of an inner energy that allows one to “burn up” all obstacles to spiritual freedom. The first foreign student to train with Nakamura Taisaburo sensei - widely acknowledged as the master of the sword art battodo - Evans clearly explains how skill such as Nakamurua sensei’s can be systematically developed through tanren, exercises that meld “inner” and “outer” power. Filled with fascinating anecdotes from Evans’s training in Japan, Kurikara is a useful, inspiring guide to Japanese sword practice and its spiritual underpinnings. John Maki Evans was born in Oxford in 1954. In 1983, while traveling in Japan, he met a yamabushi (mountain ascetic) who introduced him to Mikkyo and encouraged him to start training in kenjutsu (swordsmanship) and shugendo. After two years of intense training he was introduced to a number of senior sword teachers, including such renowned masters as Nakamura Taisaburo, Oanzaki Tomoaki, and Yoshikawa Koichiro. Since returning to England in 1996, Evans has been practicing and teaching battodo in London he is currently the head teacher of the Fudokan Battodo dojo (affiliated with the International Battodo Federation). He holds a grade of 7th Dan in Nakamura Ryu Battodo and black belt grades in numerous other arts. Evans also teaches yoga and is the director of the Islington Yoga School. 1. Kihon - Basics 2. Kata - Forms 3. Tanren - Forging Power 4. Uchikomi - Striking Targets 5. Tameshigiri - Cutting Targets 6. Kumitachi - Sparring 7. Shinshin Renma - Cultivation of Sensibility 8. Sanmitsu Yuga - Three Secrets Integration • Appendix I: Training Weapons • Appendix II: Godai Table • Appendix III: Tenouchi • Appendix IV: Sword Nomenclature • Appendix V: Safety Glossary Recommended Reading

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ISBN 9781583942444
More 178 x 235 mm, 160 pp, 33 photos
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