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teaching martial arts and fighting alongside the guerrillas against the overwhelming Soviet forces
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Detailed explanations of forms: Yari-awase
Mizuguchi wants to share the original Judo that he learned from his father and from Kyuzo Mifune with the next generation
and the late Morihiro Saito
Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion Book by Andrea Castiglioni Takeshi Miyagi teaching martial arts and fightingDefining Shugendo brings together leading international experts on Japanese mountain asceticism to discuss what has been an essential component of Japanese religions for more than a thousand years. Contributors explore how mountains have been abodes of deities, a resting place for the dead, sources of natural bounty and calamities, places of religious activities, and a vast repository of symbols. The book shows that many peoples have chosen them as