A Path into the Mountains: Shugendo and Mount Togakushi Book by Caleb Swift Carter Moni Aizik incorporating techniques from Whip Stick

incorporating techniques from Whip Stick (山西鞭杆)

--Stomach lock

More than 750 color photos will show you how to perform hundreds of exercises designed to specifically target each area of your body

Sogawa Kazuo commenced his martial arts journey under Yamashita Yoshie during elementary school

A Path into the Mountains: Shugendo and Mount Togakushi Book by Caleb Swift Carter Moni Aizik incorporating techniques from Whip StickShugend has been an object of fascination among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. This book offers a provocative reexamination of the social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose. Caleb Carter traces Shugend through the mountains of Togakushi (Nagano Prefecture), while situating it within the religious landscape of medieval and early modern Japan. His is the