Name: Kendo: Culture of the Sword (en Inglés)
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Author: Alexander Bennett
ISBN: 9780520284371

portada Kendo: Culture of the Sword (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of California Press

Autor

Alexander Bennett

Año

2015

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

328

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780520284371

N° edición

Categorías

Japón
Historia de asia

Kendo: Culture of the Sword (en Inglés)

Alexander Bennett (Autor) · University Of California Press · Tapa Dura

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Kendo is the first in-depth historical, cultural, and political account in English of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship, from its beginnings in military training and arcane medieval schools to its widespread practice as a global sport today. Alexander Bennett shows how kendo evolved through a recurring process of “inventing tradition,” which served the changing ideologies and needs of Japanese warriors and governments over the course of history. Kendo follows the development of Japanese swordsmanship from the aristocratic-aesthetic pretensions of medieval warriors in the Muromachi period, to the samurai elitism of the Edo regime, and then to the nostalgic patriotism of the Meiji state. Kendo was later influenced in the 1930s and 1940s by ultranationalist militarists and ultimately by the postwar government, which sought a gentler form of nationalism to rekindle appreciation of traditional culture among Japan’s youth and to garner international prestige as an instrument of “soft power.” Today kendo is becoming increasingly popular internationally. But even as new organizations and clubs form around the world, cultural exclusiveness continues to play a role in kendo’s ongoing evolution, as the sport remains closely linked to Japan’s sense of collective identity.