Japan in Legends and Myths

Japan ... Amazing and mysterious country. The edge of copper-brown mountains and blue lakes, rapid rivers and stormy waterfalls, dense forests and emerald green plantations. Land of ancient temples and ultra-modern skyscrapers. Impress the high technologies and scientific and technological progress.
This series of books will discover the world of Japanese martial arts in close relationship with the historical past of Japan, the traditions and customs of the Japanese people, great events, turning agents, grandiose battles and immortal heroes. The reader will contact the origins of the Samurai Military Arts, which developing, transforming and improving, turned into modern types of martial arts, well-known to the real world as Karate, Aikido, Judo, Cando, Kobudo, Jiu-Gitsu. In their descriptions, the reader will follow the development paths of these species, will get acquainted with their patriarchs, will feel the deep meaning and the inner philosophy of this "weapons", which was not equal and not in the modern world. A series of books is written in the calculation of the children"s and youthful audience, for it is in its environment that the true boom of hobbies in martial arts is now observed, and it is its representatives today is an honest, unbiased and accessible understanding of the story about this complex and multifaceted formation of human culture. The series provides for more than 50 books.
A series of books will be interested in parents of young athletes, teachers and instructors of children"s and youth groups, as well as all admirers of Japanese martial arts