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it in 1279. The Song History records a number of heroic personages in- volved in the fighting against the invaders. Among these ...

China’s current physical education program, which includes standardized routines for nationwide competition. Most recently, they ...

The Seductress, who preoccupies the warrior leader, diverting him from his task with her feminine wiles. Only in passing does ...

ers of kimono and rigid custom, preoccupied with poetry and moon view- ing. Such a picture obscures just who the bushiwomen were ...

Women did not train in using the kaiken with sophisticated combat techniques. If a woman was forced to fight, she was to grab th ...

In such a society, stories of women warriors defending their homes and their families were a means toward an end. Women trained ...

The use of martial arts in mass education The development of sportive forms of martial training Therefore it is a worthy exemp ...

Unlike some schools that claim to have remained largely unchanged since their inception, it is likely that Tendo-ryû is far diff ...

ticipate in competitions in the modern sports-oriented atarashii naginata(see below). Thus, perpetuating the tradition is clearl ...

newspapers. And, even though the fighters probably tried to exert some control, there were many injuries. In addition to challen ...

designed to be practiced in standardized formats. While this had not hap- pened to naginata practice yet, it did as it began to ...

boo strips were attached to the end of a wooden shaft, in imitation of kendô shinai.This weapon replica is light and whippy, all ...

ryû in private. As part of the training for teachers, Nitta was told that the most important thing was to boost the girls’ moral ...

Atarashii naginata contests are an imitation of kendô competition. The matches between heavily armored opponents scoring points ...

———. 1994/1995. “The Higo Ko Ryû.” Furyu1, no. 3: 49–54. ———. 1995. “The Rise of the Curved Blade.” Furyu1, no. 4: 58–68. Dore, ...

complementary relationship between Chinese wrestling and boxing, which, in earliest times, were likely barely distinguishable. D ...

265 and 316); the term adopted in Japan for sumô; and xiangfei,a local term used in Sichuan and Hebei. Contemporary descriptions ...

that these were only men’s skills, however, is somewhat misleading, for women also practiced them. The Travels of Marco Polodesc ...

There is no mat or groundwork in shuaijiao. After the opponent is thrown to the ground, one strives to maintain the superior sta ...

Guo Panxi. 1996. Zhongguo Minjian Youxi yu Jingji(Chinese Folk Games and Competitive Sports). Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publisher ...