UCLA

This thesis translates and annotates excerpts of the seventeenth-century Japanese martial arttransmission text Heihō kadensho 兵法家伝書. With the consciousness of intersemiotic translation between bodily motion and written scripts, this thesis examines the transmission of martial art knowledge both in text and in motion. This thesis demonstrates how motion and scripts function together as two distinct modes of expression that can complement and amplify one another in the process of martial art transmission.