Iido. History and modernity

Japan ... an amazing and mysterious country. The edge of copper-brown mountains and blue lakes, swift rivers and stormy waterfalls, thick forests and emerald green plantations. The land of ancient temples and ultramodern skyscrapers. The patrimony of high technology and scientific and technological progress. This series of books will reveal the world of Japanese martial arts in a close relationship with the historical past of Japan, the traditions and customs of the Japanese people, great events, turning point, grandiose battles and immortal heroes. The reader will touch the origins of the Samurai military arts, which developing, transforming and improving, turned into modern species of martial arts, known to the present world as karate, aikido, judo, kando, Kobudo, jiu-jitsa. In their descriptions, the reader will track the development of these species, get acquainted with their patriarchs, feel the deep meaning and internal philosophy of this "weapon", which was not and is not equal in the modern world. A series of books is written in the calculation of the children"s and youthful audience, because it is in its midst that the true boom of martial arts is now observed, and it is its representatives that are today an honest, unbiased and affordable story about this complex and multifaceted layer of human culture. The series has more than 50 books. A series of books will be interesting to parents of young athletes, teachers and instructors of children"s and youth groups, as well as all admirers of Japanese martial arts