{"id":1920,"date":"2017-03-21T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T13:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ponchiroli.xpl.io\/shop\/kendo\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T18:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:43:33","slug":"kendo","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/ponchirolieditori.com\/en\/shop\/kendo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kend\u014d"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>di <strong><em>Kanzaki Hiroshi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[fusion_separator style_type=\"none\" hide_on_mobile=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\" class=\"\" id=\"\" sep_color=\"rgba(224,222,222,0)\" top_margin=\"0px\" bottom_margin=\"10px\" border_size=\"\" icon=\"\" icon_circle=\"\" icon_circle_color=\"\" width=\"\" alignment=\"center\"][\/fusion_separator]\n<p><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span title=\"In questo libro, accanto ad una descrizione dettagliata degli aspetti tecnici fondamentali, il lettore trover\u00e0 tutta una serie di approfondimenti culturali in grado di introdurlo alla filosofia e alla storia di questa splendida disciplina, espressione viva della cultura giapponese tradizionale.\">Kend\u014d is a kind of traditional Japanese fencing, fought with a katana, the sword used by samurai in kenjutsu. 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