Fighting arts are as old as man himself and as varied as his languages. In Asia they... More

Hagakure ("In the Shadow of Leaves"') is a manual for the samurai classes consisting of a series... More

Illuminated spirit presents the everyday wisdom of Hideharu Onuma, fifteenth-generation master of the Japanese art of kyudo,... More

So succinct are the author's insights that these writings have outlasted the dissolution of the samurai class... More

Suzuki Shosan is among the most dramatic personalities in the history of Zen. A samurai who served... More