The Book of Samurai

Book One: Fundamental Teachings

Antony Cummins, Yoshie Minami

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English

Watkins
01 November 2018

History; Asian history; Military history; Special & elite forces; Defence strategy, planning & research

Book One: Fundamental Teachings reveals to the samurai student the basic traditions of Natori-Ryu, the renowned school of war founded in Japan in the sixteenth century. It offers a translation of two secret scrolls.

The first, Heika Jodan, contains 290 lessons for samurai during times of peace, expanding students' martial abilities and preparing them mentally and tactically for the conflicts to come. The second scroll, Ippei Yoko, moves the student onto the field of battle, providing guidance for those taking up arms for the first time. Written by master tactician Natori Masazumi, the first two Natori-Ryu documents give an in-depth account of samurai skills and actual practice, opening up the lost world of these Japanese warriors to all readers interested in martial arts and the arts of war in general.

In 1654 Natori Masazumi began his service under the powerful Kishu-Tokugawa clan. Faced with a decline in tactical and military prowess, and with a lack of wars to refine soldiery, he set about collecting a vast array of samurai arts into an assembly of scrolls, moulding and expanding his family traditions to make Natori-Ryu the premier warfare school of its time. He developed Natori-Ryu beyond its original focus on tactical and medical subjects, including, for example, the arts of the shinobi secret agents and of the military school Kusunoki-Ryu in his collated teachings. He also undertook the colossal project of compiling a samurai encyclopaedia, cataloguing arms, armour and other important tools of samurai life.

All this was done with the aim of maintaining the true skills of the warrior class before its members evolved from men of prowess into mere bureaucrats.

By: Antony Cummins, Yoshie Minami
Imprint: Watkins
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 692g
ISBN: 9781780288888
ISBN 10: 1780288883
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 01 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Antony Cummins is the founder of the Historical Ninjutsu Research Team, which has previously published The Book of Ninja (Watkins). Antony also works as a consultant and co-presenter on produce high-end documentaries on Japan that are distributed by National Geographic. He has been recognised by peers as a leading expert in the discovery of military arts of medieval Japan. Yoshie Minami was born in Tokyo and currently lives in Saitama, Japan. She has a BA degree in Linguistics from the International Christian University. As a translator, she has published True Path of the Ninja, Secret Traditions of theShinobi, Iga and Koka Ninja Skills, Samurai War Stories and has worked with Antony on various projects including the Japanese book True English.