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Shotokan
Karate -
A Precise History First
Reviews
Journal
of Asian Martial Arts
"Shotokan
Karate: A Precise History means exactly what it says. This is Shotokan
as it was and is. The book is firmly based on thorough research, and the
path taken by modern Shotokan Karate to reach the form in which it is
taught today, is very carefully documented. The text is extensively footnoted,
with references to an appendix which contains material too ample for the
footnote format. There is a very useful glossary and index. Valuable as
such a treatment is, this is not merely a dry organizational history.
Numerous stories concerning the more famous karate-ka and extensive quotations
illustrate and give vibrant life to the historical narrative." More
Robert
Dohrenwend, Ph.D.
Journal
of Asian Martial Arts
Have
you ever wondered!
• Did the JKA really practice Shotokan
karate?
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Which instructors actually trained with Gichin Funakoshi?
• How were the Shotokan bunkai lost?
• Why are there so many errors in Shotokan
Kata?
• Does modern Shotokan come from Gichin
Funakoshi?
• Why does Shotokan no longer teach
traditional weight training, body conditioning
and weapons as they once did?
• Why has so much been done to suppress
the true history of Shotokan
• Why are there so many forms
of Shotokan
• Who is praticising the karate
of Gichin Funakoshi
• How big is Shotokan's debt
to Shorin Ryu
These
and many thousands more questions are answered in the landmark new book,
Shotokan Karate - A Precise History
It is the very best book on the subject, and one that has
earned the praise of the most respected martial artists around the world.
The amount of information presented is staggering, and the material that
supports it gives this book a literary pedigree which cannot be equaled.
It will delight everyone from the casual reader to the serious history
buff.
Remarkably, despite its mass of footnotes, the extensive
reference material, and its solid scholarship, this book remains immensely
readable and very exciting. It's like a highly involved detective story
made up of the thousands of tiny clues the author has uncovered over the
past thirty years.You will be functionally illiterate in a karate sense
without a copy of this excellent new volume!
SPECIFICATIONS:
150,000 words + 150 photos; 344 pages in European
A4 size (8.5 x 11.5). Hardbound edition only with gold blocked boards
and clear acetate cover. The binding is sewn right through for permanence
and ease of use. Printed on the highest quality coated paper by a European
press established in 1746. Foreword by Morio Higaonna, 9th Dan Hanshi,
Goju Ryu. Eight chapters, three appendices and an extensive index make
this book the most significant on the subject ever published!
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Gichin
Funakoshi
Read
the latest reviews!
Dragon
Times
JAMA
"This
book should be included in the library of every serious martial artist,
not only Shotokan practitioners, for understanding the whole picture is
the best way to gain insight into your own style, hence furthering your
own development."
Morio
Higaonna,
Goju Ryu 10th Dan Hanshi
"Truly
a wonderful piece of research! My hat goes of to Mr. Cook for the quality
of the research…Well done!
Mario
McKenna MSc, Junshin University, Nagasaki, Japan.
"A
masterpiece!"
Roberto Di Sant'Anna. JKA, Brazil.
"I
would expect that any Shotokan practitioner worth their salt would move
heaven and earth to be able to place a copy on their bookshelf right next
to Karate Do Kyohan-The Master Text. I give Harry's publication 5 stars,
and so will you."
Bob
McMahon,
Shotokan Research Soc. Int.
"…a must read for karate researchers and
students"
Charles Goodin,
Hawaii Seinenkai.
"It is in my opinion the best book of its type,
certainly the best book on Shotokan, probably the best martial arts book
ever published in English."
more
John N. Edwards
Ed. Dragon Times #18
"In
addition to being a fine history of Shotokan karate, [SKAPH]
provides one of the clearest pictures available of Shotokan's Okinawan
ancestry and the spirit of the times that gave birth to modern karatedo.
[SKAPH] is a valuable addition to my personal library and a great resource
for anyone who wants an accurate and documented account of traditional
karatedo, from hitherto mysterious beginnings up to the here and now.
The historical photographs, most of which I'd never seen anywhere else,
are alone worth the price of the volume.
George Donahue, Executive Editor,
Tuttle Publishing, Boston MA
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FEW OF THE SUBJECTS COVERED IN THIS LANDMARK NEW BOOK
Abe, Keigo
• Agyo • Aikido • All American Karate Federation •
American Federation of Independent Shotokan Karate-Do • American
JKA Karate Association • Aniya, Seisho • Aoki, Hiroyuki •
Aragaki, Ankichi • Asai, Tetsuhiko • Asano, Shiro • Ason
• Aun • Azato, Yasutsune • Bassai dai • Bassai sho
• Bell, Vernon • bo • bogu kumite • breathing •
British Karate Federation • Budo • Bugis • Buke Sho Hatto
• bunkai • Butokukai • Cattle, Steve • Chi no kata
• Chibana, Choshin • China Hand, • Chinen, Masami •
Chinese kempo, • Chinte • Chinto • Chuo University •
Chuzan • Confucian Classics • Confucius • Dai Nippon Karate-do
Ten no Kata • Dalke, Ray • Dojo Kun • Draeger, Donn •
Du Pin, Louis • Dynamic Karate, • Egami, Shigeru • Empi
• Empty Hand [karate] • Engaku-ji temple, • French Boxing
• Fukien • Fukien White Crane • Funakoshi, Gichin •
Funakoshi, Gisu • Funakoshi, Yoshihide • Funakoshi, Yoshitaka
• Fusaro, Robert • Gangaku • Geiko, Kokan • Gima,
Shinkin • Gojushiho dai • Gojushiho sho • Gorin no Sho
• Gusukuma, Shimpan • Hall, Basil • han-katsu • Hanashiro,
Chomo • Hangetsu • Harada, Mitsusuke • Hazard, Dave •
Heian godan • Heian nidan • Heian sandan • Heian shodan
• Heian yondan • Hi, Choi Hong • Higa, Matsu • Higaonna,
Kanjun • Higaonna, Kanryo • Hirohito • Hironishi, Motonobu
• Ho, Chou Tze • Hokuzan • Hooper, Dave • Ikeda, Yasuo
• Inoue, Yoichiro • Instructors class • Instructors course
• International Amateur Karate Federation • International Shotokan
Karate Federation • International Traditional Karate Federation •
Ishimine • Ito, Kimio • Itosu, Yasutsune • Iwah •
Jackson, Richard • Japan Karate Association • Japan Karate-Do
Federation • Jiin • Jion • Jitte • ju-jutsu •
judo • Kamata, Toshio • Kamikaze • Kanazawa, Hirokazu •
Kanku dai • Kanku sho • Kano, Jigoro • Karate Nyumon •
Karate the Art of Empty Hand Fighting • Karate Union of Great Britain
• Kase, Taiji • Kasuya, Hitoshi • kata • Kato, Sadashige
• Kawazoe, Masao • Enoeda, Keinosuke • Keio University
• Kempo Gaisetsu • kenshusei • Ki, Go Ken • ki [vital
energy] • kick, side • kimochi • Kingu [King] Magazine
• Kongo Rikishi • Konishi, Yasuhiro • Kume-mura •
Kumite • Kushanku • Kyan, Chotoku • Karate Do Kyohan, •
Leiman, Darryl • Loo choo • Mabuni, Kenwa • Makiwara •
Manchuria • Matayoshi, Shinpo • Matsukaze • Matsumura,
Sokon • Meikyo • Meisei Juku • Mencius • Mikami, Takayuki
• Miki, Nisaburo • Miyagi, Chojun • Miyata, Minoru •
Miyazaki, Satoshi • Mochizuki, Hiroo • Moden, Yabiku •
Motobu, Choki • Moving Zen • Murakami, Tetsuji • Musashi,
Miyamoto • mushin • Nagai, Akio • Nagamine, Shoshin •
Nage no kata • Nago Oyakata, the Sage of Nago • Naha •
Naha-te • Naihanchi • Nakano School • Nakasone, Genwa •
Nakayama, Hakudo • Nakayama, Masatoshi • Nanzen • Nicol,
C.W. • Nijushiho • Nishiyama, Hidetaka • Noguchi, Hiroshi
• Nowak, Frank • nunchaku • O'Neill, Terry • Obata,
Isao • Ochayagoten • Ohshima, Tsutomu • Ohtsuka, Hironori
• Okazaki, Teruyuki • Okinawa • Okinawan kobu-jutsu •
Okuyama, Tadao • Omoto-kyo • Omoto-kyo sect • Oshima Hikki
• Oyama, Masutatsu Ozawa, Osamu • Perry, Matthew • Plee,
Henri • Powell, Michael • Rakutenkai • Rentan Goshin Karate
Jutsu • roundhouse kick •Goju
Ryu • Shito Ryu, • Ryukyu Kempo Karate • Ryukyus •
sai • Saigo, Kichinosuke • Sakugawa • Sakugawa, Tode •
samurai • Satow, Ernest • Satsuma • Satto • Schmidt,
Stan • Seipai • Seiyunchin • sempai • Shaolin temple
• Sherry, Andy • Shihan Gakko • Shimabuku, Taro •
Shimoda, Takeshi • Shimpan, Gusukuma • Shingon • Shintaido
• Shintaido Sogo Budo • Shinwa Taido • Shirai, Hiroshi
• Shiriaku, Chuzankoku • Sho dynasty • Shoji, Hiroshi •
Shorei • Shorin Ryu • Shoto • Shotokai • Shotokan
• Shotokan dojo • Shotokan Karate International • Shugendo
• Shunten • Shuri • Shuri-te • Shusai • So, Nei-chu
• Sochin • sparring methods • sport • Strategic Air
Command • Sueyoshi • Sumo • Suparimpei • T'ai Chi
Ch'uan • Taekwondo • Taikyoku • Taikyoku nidan, •
Taikyoku sandan, • Taikyoku shodan • Taira, Shinken • Takagi,
Fusajiro • Takagi, Masatomo • Takahashi, Gene • Takahashi,
George • Takahashi, Shunsuke • Takaura, Eiji • Takushoku
University • Tanaka,Masahiko • Tang Soo Do • Taoism •
Tekki • Tekki nidan • Tekki sandan • Tekki shodan •
Ten no kata • Tendai • Tenryu • Tensho • Thai boxing
• throwing techniques • To, Tai Ki • Tokyo University •
Tomari-te • tonfa • tournaments • Trimble, Aidan •
Uechi, Kanbun • Ungyo • Unsu • Valera, Dominique •
Wado Ryu • Waseda University • Whitcher, Ed. • World Karate-do
Shotokan Academy • World Shotokan Karate Association • World
Shotokan Karate-Do Federation • World Union of Karate Organizations
• Yabu, Kentsu • Yagyu-ryu • Yahara, Mikio • yakunin
• yamabushi • Yamada, Tatsuo • Yang • Yano, Kenji
• Yin • Yoseikan • Zan, Wai Shin • zanshin •
Zatsuwa, Nanto • Zen |
The second, expanded edition of this landmark book is now available. Like the first edition, it is produced to the highest standard, printed on the finest paper, and bound in the traditional manner as befits a book that is, and will continue to be, the ultimate reference to the art of Shotokan Karate.
