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A suggested reading list for karate students Required:
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Karate-do Kyohan The Master Text by Gichin Funakoshi •
Notes on Training by Tsutomu Ohshima •
Karate-do: My Way of Life by Gichin Funakoshi •
The Heart of Karate-Do by Shigeru Egami Highly
recommended: •
Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (Bantam Books) •
The Art of War by Sun Tzu •
The Sword of No-Sword: Life of the Master Warrior Tesshu by John Stevens •
The Unfettered Mind: Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master by Takuan
Soho •
The Sword and the Mind by Yagyu Munenori, •
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo •
Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors by William Scott Wilson •
The Code of the Samurai by Yuzan Daidoji •
Karate-Do Nyumon: The Master Introductory Text by Gichin Funakoshi •
The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master
by Gichin Funakoshi •
Karate Jutsu: The Original Teachings of Gichin Funakoshi •
Three Budo Masters by John Stevens •
Forty-Seven Ronin Story by John Allyn •
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa |
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