No hands fighting
Posted by Clerk on Feb 9, 2011 in Stories of the Way
The story is told of an actual 16th Century Japanese warrior named Tsukahara Bokuden, and his art of “mutekatsu“, or “no hands fighting”. Bokuden, like many samurai warriors of that time, was traveling around Japan to test his martial skills. One day, when crossing Lake Biwa on a ferry boat crowded with passengers, he was challenged […]