The stonecutter.(Kendo)(Editorial)

From: Risk Management | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Some years ago, I studied the martial art of kendo, which one might be tempted to describe as "Japanese fencing." Way back when samurai warriors kept the peace in feudal Japan, there came a time when their services were no longer needed, so they turned their warrior skills into art forms that preserved much of the lessons they had learned on the battlefield. Instead of fighting with sharpened steel, kendo practitioners use bamboo rods called shinai. To prevent serious injury, one wears a suit of armor not that dissimilar from what samurai themselves wore so long ago.

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