Price: around $100
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Product Description
…is a lavishly illustrated record of the development of karate from its birth in China to the present day. A painstakingly researched, historically accurate account, written by Harry Cook, the foremost karate historian of his generation, & covering all major styles of karate.This is a genuine limited edition that will not be on sale through bookstores, martial arts dealers or the Internet. This author’s work is so highly regarded that a short time after the publication of his last book, Shotokan Karate A Precise History, it sold out, and was only then available secondhand, for at least four times the original retail price!
Karate Chronicles - The History of Karate In Okinawa & Japan is a lavishly illustrated record of the development of karate from its birth in China to the present day. A painstakingly researched, historically accurate account written in the author's own inimitable style.
Harry Cook is able to write precise history as an engaging narrative that takes his readers back through the years as it brings to life the long dead masters of karate. And what an interesting group they are:
Choki Motobu, the man who made the previously secret art of karate public by beating a professional boxer less than half his age in a prize fight;
Chojun Miyagi, who would tear raw meat into strips with his fingers as he cooked;
Chotoku Kyan, the tiny fighter who humiliated a young judo champion;
Go Ken Ki, the link between Okinawa and China in karate's golden age; Kenwa Mabuni, who combined two major styles to create Shito Ryu; Gichin Funakoshi, founder of the "modern" karate movement; Kanbun Uechi who, haunted by an accidental death, refused to teach karate for more than twenty years.
Karate Chronicles - The History of Karate In Okinawa & Japan covers all major styles and their most prominent exponents. Uniquely it includes a genealogy of each school of karate so the reader can trace his own style back to its formation through his or her own instructors, and by doing so, more fully understand its underlying concepts and philosophy.
A Museum quality, hard bound book printed on the finest coated paper by an English press founded in1756. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of rare karate photographs, many never previously published. Includes complete sequences of kata photos of famous masters from as early as the 1950s. Covers all major styles of karate and their most prominent exponents. Features all the latest research results, including the Choki Motobu revelations.
· RRP: $100 USD
· Hardbound, Gold Block Boards: approx. 486 pages
· ISBN: ???
· Language: English
· Product Dimensions: approx. A4 - 8.5x11.5 inches
