Tag Archives: Patrick McCarthy

On the Second Alleged Itosu Photo

Yesterday, I wrote On the First Alleged Itosu Photo. Since the publication of that photo, a decade of further research passed and – not least due to corresponding activities by various stakeholders of Okinawan history and research on the internet – … Continue reading

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Enter the Bubishi

Nearly twenty years ago I received my first own fragments of the Bubishi tradition as gifts, namely copies of drawings by my friend Eddy in Belgium – who used to train at the Jundokan and others back in the days … Continue reading

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