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atsumi Masaaki: Sojutsu. Shashjin de oboeru (Sojutsu. Learn it by photographs). Chobunsha, Tokyo 2005. 174p., 21cm. This book is really interesting with a lot of excellent techniques for the Yari (So). With some knowledge in handling pole-weapons, it’ll be easy … Continue reading
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atsumi Masaaki: Hanbo-jutsu, Tessen-jutsu, Jitte-jutsu. Tsuchiya Shoten, Tokyo 2005. 182p., 21cm. Fully showing techniques used with Hanbo, Tessen, and Jitte, this book provides a strong fundament in using smaller, every day items for each and any thinkable situation. Errr, or … Continue reading
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atsumi Masaaki: Bojutsu. Shashjin de oboeru (Bojutsu. Learn it by photographs). Tsuchiya Shoten, Tokyo 2005. 223 p., 21cm. This book is really more than just useful and if you’ve learned the basics of the Bo previously, you will actually be … Continue reading
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atsumi Masaaki: Ima Ninja (Contemporary Ninja). Kono chiteki Henshinjutsu (Their Intelligent Art of Metamotphosis). Chobunsha, Tokyo 2001. 227 p., 19cm. Mainly consisting of text, this book shows how Ninja adapted to the modern world.
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ujiwara Ryozo: Kakutogi no Rekishi (The History of Weaponless Combat Sports). Bêsubôru Magajin-sha, Tokyo 1990. 766 p., 22cm. With this work Fujiwara did a phantastic job. While the part on western fighting systems is at least as good as the … Continue reading
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akagami Ryusho (1915-1993) was a Japanese Budoka and Karatea. His real name was Sakagami Hirokazu. As Mabuni Kenwa’s leading disciple, he inherited the Itosu-ha as the legitimate 3rd succcessor. In his youth, Sakagami started learning Kendo at 8 years of … Continue reading
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e-printed only partly in Vol 5 of the vast Okinawa-shi collection, this is the original containing some of the most interesting pictures and data, collected by Miyagi Tokumasa, whom – apart from having been working for the Prefectural Museum – is … Continue reading
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hen I bought this book many years ago I liked it right away. Although the Kata and Bunkai section is about Shorin-ryu Kata, in the bigger part it deals with many historical aspects of different styles and comings of Okinawan … Continue reading
et me note one of the most outstanding Japanese sports and Budô scientists ever, the man Imamura Yoshio himself. Born in Kôchi prefecture Imamura was a graduate of the Tôkyô University of Literature and Science. Through his lifetime he taught … Continue reading
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ne of the most intruiging persons in the more recent history of Japanese martial arts. After having immatriculated himself into Waseda and Meiji Universities, where he dropped out of, he worked for a Newspaper company. Afterwards he started his career … Continue reading
