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Feb 6, 2012 at 16:49 | comment | added | stslavik | Interesting. I have no frame of reference for Chinese martial arts; the closest I studied was Kung-fu San-Soo for a short time. I suspect this is common when looking at historical documents for any lineage through extremely superstitious periods of history. | |
Feb 6, 2012 at 16:45 | comment | added | Anon | chuckle for that matter, so do the Chinese ;-) | |
Feb 6, 2012 at 16:44 | comment | added | stslavik | Indeed. I never said that it was true, after all the scrolls are said to be handed down from some aspect of Amaterasu or something. The Japanese love their folklore, however, and many, many arts have fictional/mythological characters included in their lineages. | |
Feb 5, 2012 at 17:14 | comment | added | Anon | That is suspect indeed, because the history of Japanese writing is not that old: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji#History | |
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Feb 1, 2012 at 21:35 | history | answered | stslavik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |