The Real Musashi: A Miscellany (Origins of a Legend III) 9781891640865, 1891640860

Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584–1645) is the most revered and celebrated swordsman in Japanese history; unfortunately, our mod

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The Real Musashi: A Miscellany (Origins of a Legend III)
9781891640865, 1891640860

The Bukoden is one of the earliest records on Miyamoto Musashi still in existence. It was completed in 1755 by Toyoda Ma

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Some fifty years before Chrétien de Troyes wrote what is probably the first and certainly the most influential story of

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Drawn from Akkadian and Sumerian tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection, many of them previously unpublished, this co

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Drawn from Akkadian and Sumerian tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection, many of them previously unpublished, this co

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Some fifty years before Chrétien de Troyes wrote what is probably the first and certainly the most influential story of

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Erwin Rommel is the best-known German field commander of World War II. Repeatedly decorated for valor during the First W

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The term "Sons of God" first appears in Genesis - but no-one knows quite what is meant by this. Could it be po

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Becoming an Ethnomusicologist centers on the life and education of the author, Bruno Nettl, a well-known ethnomusicologi

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