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TUTTLE PUBLISHING
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These stories are works of fiction. All names, characters, places and incidents are fictitious or used fictitiously and should not be construed as accurate representations of actual persons, events, or locales.
First published in 2003 by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd., with editorial offices at 364 Innovation Drive, North Clarendon, VT 05759 U.S.A.
Copyright © 2003 by Susan Lynn Peterson
Illustrations © 2003 by Joe Reynolds
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from Tuttle Publishing.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Pubication Data
Peterson, Susan Lynn, 1957.
Legends of the martial arts masters / by Susan Lynn Peterson. p. cm
ISBN 978-1-4629-0353-5 (ebook)
LCC No.: 2003045820
GV1113 .P48 2003
796.8/092/2 B 21
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First edition
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Design by Linda Carey
Printed in the United States of America
To my martial arts teachers
KandieVactor,Tony Linebarger, Lend McCaster, Johnny Linebarger, Jeff Zauderer, John Spooner, and Bill Mailman, who over the years have taught me far more than martial arts technique.
Contents
The Hard Way to Find a Teacher
A Bully Changes His Ways
The Ballad of Mu-lan
Twelve Warriors of Burma
Wing Chun
The Eighteen Hands
The Mind Is a Sword
The Gentle Way
Great Power, Great Control
The Strange Disappearance of Morihei Ueshiba
Why Mas Oyama Shaved His Head Twice
The Bright Young Man
A Tea Master Faces Death
The Cat
How Loyalty Saved Korean Martial Arts
A Kyudo Master Makes a Bet
Fifty Thousand High Blocks
Acknowledgments
My thanks to all the people who made this book possible: To the folks of the CompuServe Writers’ Forum, especially the Research and Craft section, for insights into everything from botany to bow strings, tigers to tofu. Thanks especially to section leaders Diana Gabaldon and Susan Martin, and to Jo Bourne, Peggy Walsh Craig, Steven Lopata, Nan McCarthy, Janet McConnaughey, R. W. Odlin, Robert Lee Riffle, Larry Sitton, Kit Snedaker, Dodie Stoneburner, and Maya Rushing Walker.
To the folks of the CompuServe Literary Forum’s Children’s Literature section for comments and critiques—to section leader Marsha Skrypuch, and to Merrill Cornish, Linda Grimes, and Rosemarie Riechel.
To Moses Orepesa, Jr., and D. J. Sieker for their comments
