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Otsuka Tadahiko: Okinawa-den Bubishi. Bêsubôru Magajin-sha, Tôkyô, 1986. Beautiful collectors item. It built the basis for Otsuka’s later work entitled “Chugoku, Ryukyu Bugeishi“, but is still a masterpeace on it’s own.
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Tokashiki Iken: Okinawa Karate Hiden (Bubishi Shinshaku). Gendai Goshaku to Gihō no Kenkyū. Naha, Tokashiki Iken 1995. 264 pp. Tokashiki’s book is a true collectors item: high quality manufactured, this book comes as a hardcover in a case. Out-of-print and … Continue reading
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Article written by the late Higa Yuchoku and having been published in 1972 in Inoue Motokatsu’s Ryukyu Kobudo, Vol. I (p. 594-95). This is the original article. It had been altered in the 1983 edition, that’s why it is of special … Continue reading
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Takamiyagi Shigeru, Shinzato Katsuhiko , Nakamoto Masahiro [Aut. u. Hrsg.]: Okinawa Karate Kobudo Jiten. Tôkyô, Kashiwa Shobô 2008. iv, 745 S. 27cm. Preis: 299 Euro Dieses Lexikon des Karate Kobudô von Okinawa ist ein umfassende Kompendium aus dem „heiligen Land“ … Continue reading
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Here’s one snippet from my archives. It’s one of the oldest newspaper articles on Karate. If you are interested in copies of any of the oldest newspaper articles on Karate, let me know. Transliterated and translated (to German) by the … Continue reading
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Tsûkô-ichiran, Maki no Ichi: Ryûkyû-kunibu 1. Heikin Shimatsu (Überblick über Auslandsbeziehungen, Band 1. Abteilung Ryûkyû, 1. Hergang der Befriedung). In: Okinawa no Rekishi Jôhô, Band 6. Tsûkô-ichiran: Vorgeschichte und Unterwerfung Untersuchen wir die Schriftzeichen des Landesnamens, steht im Chûzan Sekan … Continue reading
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Sakamaki Shunzo: Ryukyu. A Bibliographic Guide to Okinawan Studies (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1963, pp. 103-104 Das Tsûkô Ichiran – der “Überblick über Auslandsbeziehungen”, ist die umfangreichste Sammlung von Aufzeichnungen über Ryukyu, die in Tokugawa-Japan (1603-1868) zusammengestellt wurde. Die … Continue reading
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Uezato Takashi: The Japanese Settlement in Naha of Old Ryukyu, and the China Sea Maritime World. In: Shigaku Zasshi (Zeitschrift der Geschichtswissenschaften). Vol. 114, No. 7. Japanische Gesellschaft der Geschichtswissenschaften, Tôkyô Juli 2005. pp. 1179-1211; 1327-28. S. 149-150 (1327-1328) This … Continue reading
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Otsuka Tadahiko. Chûgoku, Ryûkyû Bugeishi.Bêsubôru Magajin-sha, Tôkyô 1998. 319 Ss. 26cm. Inhalt: Teil 1: Prolog: Karate und Taijiquan Prolog: Karate Bericht über die erste Taiwan-Reise Bericht über Wŭzŭquán (jap. Gosoken; 5 Ahnen Boxen) und die Reise nach Manila Bericht über … Continue reading
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Two phantastic books containing – among many others – data on Mura-bo, the traditional staff fencing techniques of Ryukyu: Hokama Tetsuhiro: Okinawa Karate Kobudô no Shinzui (The True Essence of Okinawan Karate and Kobudô). Haebaru-chô (Okinawa-ken), Naha Shuppansha 1999. 389 pp. … Continue reading
