Japanese Castles. History and Structure

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