From the interweaving of local martial traditions and Chinese Wushu, the samurai code of honor “Bushido” and secret folk fighting methods, the unique world of Japanese martial arts was born. In it, the rose was inseparable from the sword, and poetry was inseparable from the art of combat. The book contains rare materials about the military practice of samurai, training methods in judo and aikido, karate and Shorinji kempo, the art of sword fighting, kendo, systems of fighting with improvised means, kobudo, and the sacraments of training of the mountain monks of Yamabushi. All this and much more in the new bestseller by Alexei Maslov.