Balázs Szabó
Balázs Szabó
Habil. Associate Professor
Department of Japanese Studies
Head of Department
Contact details
Address
1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 4/B
Room
I. em. 240
Phone/Extension
2033
Links
ORCID
0000-0002-3661-363X
Google Scholar
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Publications
mtmt.hu
  • 6. Humanities
    • 6.1 History and Archaeology
      • History
    • 6.2 Languages and Literature
      • Specific languages
      • Specific literatures
    • 6.4 Arts, history of arts, performing arts, music
History and theory of Japanese martial arts

My research is centered on the history of Japan, main focus on the history of Japanese martial arts.

I researched the intellectual history of premodern Japan, as related to the above topic.

Keywords
Japanese art, history, Japanese Buddhism, Japanese thought, Japanese history
Premodern era Japanese history of thought

My research on the topic of Martial Arts led me to investigate the intellectual background martial arts writers had. With emphasis on Buddhism and Song Confucianism, I studied how they found connection with those topics and the question of skills, fearlessness, life and death.

Keywords
history of philosophy, Japanese thought