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and other martial arts into their repertoire. Ninjutsu continues to fascinate audiences worldwide, and modern warfare still allo ...

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Okinawa Okinawameans a “rope in the offing” (Japanese), and is the general name given to a chain of approximately 140 islands an ...

Land of Happy Immortals, the Central Ryûkyûs remained effectively de- militarized until expansion by the Yamato after 616. Short ...

bushi of the Ryûkyûs, he be allowed to practice te before his death. His re- quest was granted, and he was released from his bon ...

Form of the Lords), thus furthering the association between the nobility (anji) and te. The consideration that the divine progen ...

source in Okinawa. The family operated its own dôjô in Fuzhou, where many young Uchinachu trained while in China. Until the 1970 ...

Orders of Knighthood, Religious Despite many legends indicating a greater antiquity, the first religious or- ders of knighthood ...

bodiment of their own traditional military ideal, and therefore to be con- ferred by a special ritual called adobement(French; d ...

who restored serious manual labor and apostolic simplicity to the monas- tic life, and introduced for the first time the incorpo ...

it one of the largest and most widespread religious orders (and one of the richest international corporations) of its time. It w ...

trary to the statutes and actively opposed by the higher authorities of the Church, and they did not achieve a position of numer ...

the Teutonic Knights of the Hospital of St. Mary was founded as a hospi- tal for German pilgrims by German crusaders during the ...

sions annexed to Calatrava. The Order of St. George of Alfama (San Jorge de Alfama) was founded by King Pere II of Aragon in 120 ...

in 1211 and had just been expelled from that kingdom in 1225 for creat- ing a state within a state. The dispossessed knights beg ...

man sultan. In 1530 they were granted Malta in its place, and as the Knights of Malta carried on the original crusade until Napo ...

the Knightly Order of St. George, founded by the emperor Frederick III in 1469 and maintained at least to the death of his son t ...

eral hundred professed knights, and the lesser orders like St. Lazarus and St. Thomas probably never included more than a few do ...

tallers of St. John wore a habit and mantle of black, like many Augustin- ian orders of canons, and a military surcoat of red. T ...

In the day-to-day business of the order, the master governed with the assistance of the great officers of the order, who resided ...