Autumn Lightning The Education of an American Samurai

Name: Autumn Lightning The Education of an American Samurai
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ISBN: 9781570621154

ISBN-10: 1570621152

ISBN-13: 9781570621154

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Dave Lowry

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Blending autobiography and history, Lowry offers a portrait of the medieval Japanese samurai tradition and its survival in modern America.

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/21/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

DAVE LOWRY is the restaurant critic for St. Louis Magazine and writes regularly for a number of magazines on a wide variety of subjects, many of them related to Japan and the Japanese martial arts. He is the author of numerous nonfiction books.



Foreword


Preface



Meeting with the Past



The Sixteen Spears of Nagano



Matters of Concentration



A Death Among Peach Blossoms



Autumn and Other Things Japanese



The Swordsmen in the Shadows



A Ritual of Style, A Function of Grace



The Shogun's Master



Iai, Cutting at Raindrops



The Swordsman and the Priest



Lessons in the Warrior's Way



Things Out of Season


Afterword: Two Rivers into the Same Sea


Glossary


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