Author: Ernest John HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting (Japanese)
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Fighting Spirit of Japan and Other Studies
Author: Ernest John HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting (Japanese)
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Fighting Spirit of Japan
Author: E. J. HarrisonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
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The Fighting Spirit of Japan and Other Studies
Author: Ernest John HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Fighting Spirit of Japan: The Esoteric Study of the Martial Arts and Way of Life in Japan
Author: E. J. HarrisonPublisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9780464044833
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
An examination of the place of the martial arts in Japanese culture includes discussions of the history, philosophy, and techniques of judo, karate, wrestling, and fencing.
The Fighting Spirit of Japan
Author: Ernest John HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hand-to-hand fighting, Oriental
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Fighting Man of Japan
Author: F. J. NormanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781536879858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
In "The Fighting Man of Japan "' we have a very interesting little book by Mr. F. J. Norman, who is eminently fitted to discourse on the " Exercises and Training of the Samurai," having passed many years in Japan as instructor to some of the military and civilian colleges. THE writer, an old hussar, has been a long resident in Japan, and an instructor in its leading colleges. His book, though of but eighty pages, is one of the most interesting and most valuable of the contributions to our literature which we owe to the Russo-Japanese war, now happily ended. Had we all known what Mr. Norman knew, its results would scarcely have been so much of a surprise to the rest of the world as they have proved. The book is not didactic, but historical and personal, giving a concise account of the military and naval training in Japan and a sketch of Mr. Norman's own experiences in the fencing and wrestling schools in Tokyo. He had a unique experience with the great professors and reached an efficiency which astonished his masters. "Lately you have become greatly disciplined in fencing. I admire you much," as the great Onova wrote on his card. There is an admirably clear and concise history of Japan from its beginnings. Between the lines we can see the reasons why development was for so long impeded, and why, when the change began, the advance was so sudden and so decided. The book is divided into four chapters, each of which deals with a separate subject. The first gives a rapid sketch of Japanese military history dating from 1543, which is as far back as our European knowledge of it extends, and incidentally giving a description of the spirit which animated the "Samurai" of old-and a very different one, it would appear from Mr. Norman's account, from that which guided our knights and crusaders. An interesting chapter is that on the education of the naval and military officers, showing what a very fine sieve has to be passed through before the aspirants are thought capable and worthy of defending their country either as sailors or soldiers. The chapter on " Kenjutsu " deals with the affection the Japanese have always felt for the sword, and the great cleverness they exhibit when using it in a hand-to-hand fight. This cleverness would appear to be the result of much practice in "kenjutsu," for which a " shinai," or practice sword, is used, made from four strips of bamboo bound together at the handle with a strong leather covering. The last chapter describes the sumo or wrestling of the Japanese-to many a most repulsive spectacle on account of the enormously fat bodies of the particular class of men who follow this profession; but a fight between two expert sumotori is for the japanese an event of almost national importance, and they flock in thousands to the huge amphitheatre in the centre of which the tussle takes place. The last few pages of the book are devoted to jujitsu. We think it will be safe to assert that no Englishman has so extensive a knowledge of Japanese methods of offence and defence as is possessed by Norman. Norman, who gave an exhibition of Kenjitsu in Oxford, is an old soldier who had been for many years an instructor in Japan. In this little book he first describes with enthusiasm the early military history of the Japanese, and their present methods of education in Naval and Military Colleges. The latter chapters expound the " noble sciences" of fencing and of" rough-and-tumble" as practised throughout Japan. The account should interest a wide circle of readers.
The Fighting Spirit of Japan and Other Studies, by E. J. Harrison,...
Author: E. J. HarrisonThe Fighting Spirit of Japan
Author: E J (Ernest John) HarrisonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983797415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Ernest John ("E.J.") Harrison was an English journalist, author and judoka. Harrison was born in Manchester, England, on 22 August 1873. He wrote many books about the practice of judo. He died in London, on 23 April 1961. As a young man, Harrison was a journalist who worked for newspapers in England, British Columbia, and Japan. He enjoyed wrestling. In 1897, while working for Yokohama newspaper called Japan Herald, he began training in Tenjin shinyo-ryu jujutsu. After moving to Tokyo, he began training in Kodokan judo. In 1911, he was the first foreign-born person to achieve shodan (black belt ranking) in Kodokan judo. In 1912, his Fighting Arts of Japan was among the first English-language books to describe the Japanese martial arts from the perspective of a foreign-born practitioner of those arts. ..
The Fighting Spirit of Japan and Other Studies
Author: The Fighting Spirit of Japan
Author: Ernest John HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description