Shakunetsu: Chronicles of the Creation of Shintaido, a Japanese Martial Art by Pierre Quettier
ISBN: 979-8-218-21148-6
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From the BACK COVER
Amid the extraordinary, global upheaval of the 1960’s, a group of young Japanese idealists embarked on a quest characteristic of the time: to break down the cultural and class barriers of a venerable and ancient tradition to its essence, reconstitute it, and share it with as many people as possible. The tradition was budo, the traditional martial arts of Japan. The result of their work was shintaido, a radically new discipline, open and generous, forging its own body of tradition and mythos that would be handed down to their successors and, they hoped, benefit the world.
The ambition of this book, a collective biography, is to provide access to these origin stories by presenting the men and women who lived these moments, as they lived them. Their testimony may prove valuable, not only for practitioners of shintaido and martial arts enthusiasts but also as primary source material for scholars of the human sciences, particularly sociologists codifying the knowledge-to-exist of a culture.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pierre Quettier is a retired professor from the University of Paris 8, an ethnomethodologist specialized in Information and Communication Sciences and in Education Sciences.
He is Dai-Shihan of Shintaido, which he studied in Japan since the 1970s with the founding members of the discipline, and holds high-level dan ranks in karate, bojutsu and kenjutsu.
Also visit: www.shakunetsu.net
