Inner Dharma has resulted in several publications. If you find the writing here interesting, please consider them in order to help support and maintain this site. Each book’s page describes it in full, with sample chapters and the research articles that go with it.
Shugendō and Heihō: Sacred Space and Martial Practice. Mountain, Sword, and Mind, Volume I. Inner Dharma, 2026. 407 pages. Peak entry, tengu and gongen, the sacred sites and the martial traditions attached to them, and the Shugendō pantheon and its military rites.
Mikkyō, Zen, and Daoist Sources in Shinkage-ryū. Mountain, Sword, and Mind, Volume II. Inner Dharma, 2026. 437 pages. The Heihō Kadensho, the Tsuki no Shō and Takuan’s writings in translation, with the later Shinkage-ryū tradition.
From the Kōbusho to the Butokukai: Swordsmanship in Transition. Inner Dharma, 2026. 360 pages. The late Edo period Kōbusho, the martial academy of the Tokugawa, its swordsmen and their styles, and the institutions that followed it into the modern era.
The Truth of the Calm Spirit. Inner Dharma, 2025. 368 pages. An examination of the practice of Jikishinkage-ryū kenjutsu through the lens of internal martial arts.
The research behind the books is gathered by topic: Shinkage-ryū, Shugendō and Heihō, and the Kōbusho to the Butokukai. All the writing, books included, is listed by date on the writing page.
