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Mas Oyama

1 Jan 2013

A 1962 point of view

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 6 - History and Martial Arts | 3

I’ve had this old beater copy of Zen Combat — Jay Gluck‘s ground-breaking 1962 treatise on Japanese martial arts – for years but never got around to cracking open its aging pages until recently. Finding a full chapter on ninja, written … Continued

Jay Gluck, Mas Oyama, vintage magazines, Zen Combat

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