Dave Lowry (martial arts)

Dave Lowry is an American writer best known for his articles, manuals and novels based on Japanese martial arts.

A student of Japanese martial arts since 1968, when he began studying Yagyū Shinkage-ryū kenjutsu under Ryokichi Kotaro of the Nara Prefecture of Japan, he has also studied Shintō Musō-ryū, as well as karate, aikido, and Kodokan judo.

He has a degree in English, and has written about a variety of topics related to budō, the Japanese concept of the "martial way." He has written training manuals on use of weapons such as the bokken and jo, a few novels centered on the lifestyle of the budōka (one who follows the martial way),[1] and many articles on martial practices[2] and traditional Japanese philosophy. He has been a regular columnist for Black Belt magazine since 1986, where he writes on the traditional arts.

He has written almost 20 books, primarily on the martial arts.

He has also held positions as a published restaurant critic.

Books by Dave Lowry
  • The Connoisseurs Guide to Sushi
  • Clouds in the West: Lessons from the Martial Arts of Japan
  • Moving Toward Stillness: Lessons in Daily Life from the Martial Ways of Japan
  • Traditions: Essays on the Japanese Martial Arts and Ways
  • Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai
  • Persimmon Wind: A Martial Artist's Journey in Japan
  • Jo: The Art Of The Japanese Short Staff
  • Sword and Brush: The Spirit of the Martial Arts
  • Bokken - Art of the Japanese Sword
  • In the Dojo: A Guide to the Rituals and Etiquette of the Japanese Martial Arts
  • The Karate Way: Discovering the Spirit of Practice
  • The Essence of Budo: A Practitioner's Guide to Understanding the Japanese Martial Ways
  • Chinese cooking for diamond thieves (novel)
gollark: Unless they have a warrant, you can apparently just tell them to go away and they can't do anything except try and get one based on seeing TV through your windows or something.
gollark: But the enforcement of it is even weirder than that:- there are "TV detector vans". The BBC refuses to explain how they actually work in much detail. With modern TVs I don't think this is actually possible, and they probably can't detect iPlayer use, unless you're stupid enough to sign up with your postcode (they started requiring accounts some years ago).- enforcement is apparently done by some organization with almost no actual legal power (they can visit you and complain, but not *do* anything without a search warrant, which is hard to get)- so they make up for it by sending threatening and misleading letters to try and get people to pay money
gollark: - it funds the BBC, but you have to pay it if you watch *any* live TV, or watch BBC content online- it's per property, not per person, so if you have a license, and go somewhere without a license, and watch TV on some of your stuff, you are breaking the law (unless your thing is running entirely on battery power and not mains-connected?)- it costs about twice as much as online subscription service things- there are still black and white licenses which cost a third of the price
gollark: Very unrelated to anything, but I recently read about how TV licensing works in the UK and it's extremely weird.
gollark: "I support an increase in good things and a reduction in bad things"

References
  1. "Book Review Chinese Cooking for Diamond Thieves (fiction)". Eating China
  2. "Book Review Keiko Shokon: Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan, Volume 3". Fighting Arts, Ken Mondschein


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