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I don’t know what to say. Last week I got terrible news. One of my senior students and friends passed away. He had been an integral member of our dojo since around 2009 when he started as a white belt. I watched him and his son grow as they trai…

摩利支天法 Marishiten-hō Introduction to the Translation This translation presents the complete text of a handwritten Japanese manuscript of the Marishiten-hō (摩利支天法), the Ritual Method of Marishiten. The original is a short manuscript of eleven leaves he…

I once read that the Amatsu Tatara scrolls themselves were said to have come from the belly of a fish. That single detail made the old Chinese legend of Lü Shang leap off the page. Three thousand years ago, the sage known as Taigong Wang fished for y…

When I travel to Japan it seems like I race from class to class. Or, I race from train to train through Tokyo to explore the historic sites of Japan and our Bujinkan art. But here I stopped the race to enjoy training with Nagase Sensei and think a…

武風 Bufū by Takamatsu Sensei in question is a classical Japanese martial manifesto written in kanbun (漢文) style—formal classical Chinese as traditionally composed and read in Japan. This elevated literary form was commonly used for official proclamati…