📚 Kendo

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The way of the sword: bamboo and armour, and the modern discipline of an old combat art.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject kendo in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Gorin no sho	Miyamoto Musashi	1963	237
The sword of no-sword	Stevens, John	1984	6
Kendo	Kiyota	2013	5
This is Kendo	Junzo Sasamori	1964	4
Zen no shisō to kenjutsu	Rentarō Satō	2008	3
Bamboo Blade, Vol. 1	Masahiro Totsuka	2009	3
Kendo	Geoff Salmon	2013	3
Nihon kendōshi	Jirokichi Yamada	1960	2
This is kendo	Junzō Sasamori	1964	2
Bakumatsu Kanto kenjutsu eimeiroku no kenkyu	Ichiro Watanabe	1967	2
Yagyū Shinkageryū	Yoshio Imamura	1967	2
Die Kunst der Bergdämonen	Reinhard Kammer	1969	2
Iai-jitsu	Darrell Craig	1983	2
Kendō no hattatsu	Ushio Shimokawa	1984	2
Kendō ichiro	Shigeyoshi Takano	1985	2
Shiryō kindai kendōshi	Tamio Nakamura	1985	2
Kenjutsu	Charles Daniel	1991	2
Looking at a far mountain	Paul Budden	1992	2
Kendo	Hiroshi Ozawa	1997	2
Personal growth through martial arts	Minoru Kiyota	1997	2
The Shambhala guide to Kendo	Minoru Kiyota	2002	2
Kendo	Jinichi Tokeshi	2003	2
Samurai Fighting Arts	Fumon Tanaka	2003	2
Erfenis van de goden	Willem Bekink	2003	2
Kendō	Sasaburō Takano	1915	1
Dai Nippon Teikoku kendō kata	Dai Nihon Butokukai. Honbu	1933	1
Kendō oyobi kendōshi	Hiromasa Takano	1934	1
劍道及劍道史	Hiromasa Takano	1934	1
Shōgakusei chūtō gakusei kendō-dokuhon	Toyoji Baba	1937	1
宮本武蔵五輪書と剣道の精神	Miyamoto Musashi	1937	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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