Archaeological News: 19th-Century Samurai Training Text Deciphered

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A training text, used by a martial arts school to teach members of the bushi (samurai) class, has been deciphered, revealing the rules samurai were expected to follow and what it took to truly become a master swordsman.

The text is called Bugei no jo, which means “Introduction to Martial…

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    The text was not “deciphered”; it was translated. Its not fucking Linear A. Nineteenth century Japanese is pretty much...
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