Ichijoji
Sumi-e, strategy and swordsmanship - inspired by the arts of Miyamoto Musashi
Friday, 29 October 2010
Sakurada Mongai no Hen - The Sakurada Gate Incident
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This is a very different film from the 13 Assassins - as the title might indicate, although it sounds more impressive in Japanese, and it to...
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Tuesday, 26 October 2010
13 Assassins
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Well, I saw Takashi Miike's Jusan-nin no Shikaku, or '13 Assassins' which I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, and found it very r...
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Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Unconventional Strategy
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I first read about this ploy in Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress", but recently came across an account of it being used ...
Monday, 18 October 2010
What Plot is This?
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It is harvest time in Kyoto now - the views of the fields have probably changed little for hundreds of years. One of the most characteristic...
Monday, 11 October 2010
Swords on the Screen
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There are a couple of interesting looking movies out this month. Both of them are somewhat similar in theme, but very different in treatment...
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Zen again - what a pickle
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The subject of Zen and the sword is a perennial chestnut. The 'traditional' view that kendo is a kind of 'zen in motion' se...
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Regional Strategy
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It seems the excitement never stops! Once again, discounting the rights and wrongs of the situation (and everyone involved has pretty strong...
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