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A suggested reading list for karate students

 

Required:

• 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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