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Mishima's Sword - Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend

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calendar_month2006
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Citation

Ross, Christopher. (2006). Mishima's Sword - Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend

Contributors

  • AuthorRoss, Christopher

Cited by (5)

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Funasaka Hiroshi
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Funasaka Yoshio
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Ōmori-ryū
大森流
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Yoshikawa Masami
Yukio Mishima
Kendo, Ōmori-ryū · 1925 – 1970 · Tokyo

Description

Travelogue-investigation by Christopher Ross (martial arts practitioner and Japan resident) into the fate of Mishima's sword. Contains first-hand interviews central to his martial arts record - the sword dealer's family account of teaching Mishima iai as a teenager (Omori-ryu, called Hasegawa Eishin-ryu at the time, practised with shinken, including the kaishaku form), the testimony of Hiroshi Funasaka (his senior at the kendo dojo, sword donor after writing Eirei no Zekkyo), and an assessment chapter recording that at his death Mishima held fifth dan kendo, second dan iaido and first dan Shotokan karate, alongside sceptical evaluations of his technique by Henry Scott Stokes and others.

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kendo · iaido

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Mishima's Sword - Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M0T8BCW0F5ZVVP0681TZDVA1 - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01M0T8BCW0F5ZVVP0681TZDVA1, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Mishima's Sword - Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M0T8BCW0F5ZVVP0681TZDVA1}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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