Bubi
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A decade following one of Charles E. Tuttle's best selling Martial Arts titles, "Bubishi, The Bible of Karate," this new work is a companion text aimed at helping the reader better understand the nature of its abstract practices. Where the original Tuttle publication featured our English translation of the old treatise and my supporting research this work meticulously explores it actual hands-on practices [Forty-eight postures, twenty-nine escapes, Happoren, Nepai, and Rakan-ken, in DVD]. Who better than myself [researcher/translator/seminar instructor] to describe and demonstrate such practices? The nature of my interests took me to many ports of call over the years where I came into contact with various people, some of whom were the senior most authorities of Japanese, Okinawa and Chinese fighting traditions. Losing track of how many times I visited Tokyo's old book district in Kanda/Jimbocho, how much money I pumped into the photocopy machines at the libraries of the National Diet and Kodokan, or Hosei, Takashoku, Keio, Ritsumeikan, Okinawa, Ryukyu and Budo Universities, not to mention my endless browsing through the archives of the Japan Times, Asahi, Mainichi & Ryukyu Shimpo (newspapers). I left no rock unturned. Providing more than just a precise explanation of Bubishi-related practices, I also dispel any and all myths surrounding how this English translation came to be and introduce all the people I met along the journey who had something/anything to do with its publication. I am certain that the Bubishi Companion will be a publication any serious karate-ka won't want to miss.