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Karate-Do Kyohan

Karate-Do Kyohan Sewn binding is square and tight. - 1981

by Funakoshi, Gichan

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Hardcover. 256 pp. Kodansha International Ltd., New York (1981). First Edition thus. Ninth Printing thus. Bright, clean, unmarked copy appears unread. Black cloth boards and corners straight amd sharp. Two tears at top of rear DJ panel. DJ in poly wrap. Very Fine/Very Good+. More photos on request. Shipped in a box within a box, in bubble wrap, with a tracking number.
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  • Title Karate-Do Kyohan
  • Author Funakoshi, Gichan
  • Binding Sewn binding is square and tight.
  • Edition First Edition thus; Ninth Printing
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Kodansha International Ltd., New York
  • Date 1981
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BR-0219-1116
  • ISBN 9780870111907 / 0870111906
  • Weight 2.08 lbs (0.94 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.3 x 10.2 x 1.1 in (18.54 x 25.91 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Karate
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 72090228
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.815

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In Okinawa, a miraculous and mysterious martial art has come down to us from the past.

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About the author

GICHIN FUNAKOSHI is one of karate's great masters. Born in Shuri, Okinawa Prefecture, 1868, he studied Karate-do from childhood and organized the the first public demonstrations.

As president of the Okinawa Association for the Spirit of Martial Arts, he was chosen to demonstrate karate at the First National Athletic Exhibition in Tokyo in 1922. This led to the introduction of the ancient martial art to the rest of Japan and subsequently to the rest of the world.

At the urging of friends and officials, he remained in Tokyo, and the development of the way of karate owes much to his teaching, writings and introduction of new forms. In his later years, he was president of Shotokai, of which he was a founder. He emphasized always the spiritual aspects of Karate-do, and it is significant that through his influence the Chinese characters for karate were changed from "Chinese" hand to "empty" hand.

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