Posts Tagged ‘Culture’

Fake Samurai & Kendo in the Japan Expo 2011: On a Cultural Plunder

Fake Kendo and Fake Samurai www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com LInks Japan Expo www.japan-expo.com Bushido en.wikipedia.org Samurai en.wikipedia.org Japanese sword en.wikipedia.org Full Text of “Bushido, 1900″ by Inazo Nitobe chiri.let.hokudai.ac.jp Full Text of “Korea and Her Neighbors, 1898″ by Isabella Bird Bishop hompi.sogang.ac.kr Full Text of “Corea, the Hermit Nation. [...]

Samurai Sword (Part 1-5) HD

The blades of old samurai swords are sometimes carved with a single terrifying figure: the number of human bodies they have sliced in two with a single stroke. Indeed, each katana, or samurai sword, has its own unique story of not only a lethal past, but also an exquisite creation. Trace one blade’s beginnings to [...]

Michiko live blade katana (First Samurai Sword)

*I did a new video with my DSLR with much higher quality!* www.youtube.com So I finally decided to buy my first samurai sword, I did a lot of searching before I chose this blade. The reviews were great and I loved the aesthetic look and feel. Anyway I did this video the same day I [...]

Korean Fake Samurai & Kendo in the Japan Expo 2011: Cultural Plunder of Japan by South Korea

Although an American anthropologist and cultural relativist, Ruth Benedict described Japanese culture as “shame culture” in her well-known book, “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, 1946,” there seem to be some people who have “shameless” culture. These some “shameless” people neither hesitate nor feel ashamed to spread such an astounding lie that Kendo (Gumdo in Korean [...]

Samurai Sword (Part 3-5) HD

The blades of old samurai swords are sometimes carved with a single terrifying figure: the number of human bodies they have sliced in two with a single stroke. Indeed, each katana, or samurai sword, has its own unique story of not only a lethal past, but also an exquisite creation. Trace one blade’s beginnings to [...]