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  Katana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The weapon was typically paired with the wakizashi or shoto, a similarly made model, but shorter sword both worn by the members of the buke (bushi) warrior class, it could also be worn with the tantō, an even smaller similarly shaped blade.
The two weapons together were called the daisho which literally means big-small, and represented the social power and personal honor of the samurai (buke retainers to the daimyo).
The long blade was used for open combat, while the shorter blade was considered a side arm, and also more suited for stabbing, close combat (such as indoors), and seppuku, a form of ritual suicide.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katana   (7582 words)

  
 HOLLAND, RICHARD, or R... - Online Information article about HOLLAND, RICHARD, or R...
1450), Scottish writer, author of the Buke of the Howlal, was secretary or See also:
The poem, entitled the Buke of the Howlat, written about 1450, shows his devotion to the See also:
judgment that the Buke is " a poetical See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /HIG_HOR/HOLLAND_RICHARD_or_RICHARD_DE_H.html   (589 words)

  
 Zhuangzi [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Now, the theme of opposites is taken up by the Mohists, in their later Mohist Canon, but with a very different understanding.
The later Mohists present a detailed analysis of judgments as requiring bivalence: that is judgments may be acceptable (ke) (also, 'affirmed' shi) or unacceptable (buke) (also 'rejected' fei); they must be one or the other and they cannot be both.
There must always be a clear distinction between the two.
www.iep.utm.edu /z/zhuangzi.htm   (7319 words)

  
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Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry - book
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