Below is an excerpt from an excellent article that was posted at The Classical Budoka. The full article may be read here.It started off pretty innocuously. A student in a friend’s koryu martial arts class asked what kind of influence Shinto, the nativistic Japanese set of beliefs, had on their training. My friend composed a lengthy email about the subject, asking me and another peer for further comments.

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