Boulder Internal Kung Fu

Shoki and Demon, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ca. 1850, Japan

隠し砦の三悪人 The Hidden Fortress , Akira Kurosawa , 1958.

Interesting and funny video about Kendo training for first timers, which is not as easy and simple as you think.

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964) Kenji Misumi

lijiang, guilin, guangxi province

Detroit was big on kung fu movies. It was $1.50 to get in and lines were around the block. The Fox theater was the king of kung fu movies.

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964) Kenji Misumi

Classical Suzhou style garden architecture inside the botanical garden in Bochum, Germany, 2022

Honda Tadakatsu (本多 忠勝, March 17, 1548 – December 3, 1610)Was one of the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings. It is said that he fought 60 battles and was never injured once.Tadakatsu fought with the legendary spear Tombo-Giri.The Tonbokiri (蜻蛉切) is one of three legendary Japanese spears created by the famed swordsmith Fujiwara Masazane, said to be wielded by the daimyō Honda Tadakatsu, a leading general of Tokugawa Ieyasu.The spear derives its name from the myth that a dragonfly landed on its blade and was instantly cut in two. Thus tonbo (Japanese for “dragonfly”) and kiri (Japanese for “cutting”), translating this spear’s name as “Dragonfly Cutter”.

suzhou garden by Boshijie_XHS

Yojimbo (1961)

突きの稽古

Japanese traditional fencing, Kendo.