Top products from r/Koryu
We found 4 product mentions on r/Koryu. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Encyclopedia of Japanese Martial Arts
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
Show Reddit reviews2. The Shambhala Guide to Kendo: Its Philosophy, History, and Spiritual Dimension
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
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All of the best resources are in Japanese but, though some come close, none will answer all of your questions. I don't know of any work that attempts to tackle popularity and very few that cover both extant and dead schools mark which is which.
The closest thing to the Bugei Ryuha Daijiten in English is Dr. David A. Hall's Encyclopedia of Japanese Martial Arts.
For free resources, I recommend you read through the wiki in the sidebar and then check out this post: Kata in Classical Japanese Martial Arts. There are many more videos here in /r/koryu and /r/iaido and more info in the other links in the sidebar.
As a kendo practitioner myself, I like the following book https://www.amazon.com/Shambhala-Guide-Kendo-Philosophy-Spiritual/dp/1570629277 which gives a general idea of zen and shinto influence in sword schools and kendo, a topic which is most of the time not discussed in more popular kendo books.
Comic book co-written by Ellis Amdur and Neal Stephenson.
I've read enough to know it's not worth buying. But I'm talking about this garbage:
https://www.amazon.com/Samurai-Swordmanship-Vol-Masayuki-Shimabukuro/dp/B0017TCSLW