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become other thoughts. In combat application, the interception and man- agement of an attack is open to a greater number of opti ...

rea and Japan. A director (kwang jang nin) attends to the managing affairs of the school, while an instructor (sabunim) oversees ...

this ideology by a word meaning “knightliness”: in Old and Middle French, chevalerie,and in English, chivalry.Like some other co ...

be able to identify individual knights in tournaments gave them a special interest in the cognizances or “arms” whose use (on sh ...

largely the creation of heralds, who certainly provided it with its technical terminology. They also kept its records. Possibly ...

the death) of real warfare (when armorial banners were alone displayed), and in certain pas, emprinses,or imprese(as enterprises ...

Christendom gradually acquired the character of an international profes- sional corps comparable to the clergy, with distinct ra ...

record those that were legitimately borne. This gave rise by 1450 to the even more significant right to invent and grant new arm ...

Iaidô Iaidôis the Japanese martial art of drawing and cutting in the same mo- tion, or “attacking from the scabbard.” It dates f ...

mands excellent posture and the ability to generate power from many po- sitions. The art appeals to those who are looking for so ...

the imaginary blood is flicked off while standing up. The feet are switched while checking the opponent, and the blade placed ba ...

benefit the players. Their opponents will suggest that the benefits of mar- tial arts are quite different and that they are inco ...

Watanabe, Tadashige. 1993. Shinkage-ryû Sword Techniques, Traditional Japanese Martial Arts. Trans. by Ronald Balsom. 2 vols. To ...

encyclopedic collection of knowledge and practices, the Agni Purana—is very late, dating from no earlier than the eighth century ...

for infantry; and for wrestling), and five types of weapons to be learned (those projected by machine [arrows or missiles], thos ...

called a kalari), North India’s mushti (wrestling) and dandi (staff fighting), and Karnataka’s malkambh (wrestler’s post). Among ...

named after dynamic animals such as the horse, peacock, serpent, lion, and the like. Students eventually take up weapons, beginn ...

References Alter, Joseph S. 1992.The Wrestler’s Body: Identity and Ideology in North India.Berkeley: University of California Pr ...

Japan The historical development and evolution of warfare in Japan are as old as Japanese civilization itself, over the centurie ...

China since the ancient period has allowed the Japanese to borrow selected aspects of Chinese culture (including martial knowled ...