Karate as Calligraphy: The Budo Revival in Shotokan

Karate as Calligraphy: The Budo Revival in Shotokan

Karate as Calligraphy offers a wide-ranging discussion of the technical, historical and philosophic aspects of Funakoshiâ€™s karate. Karate as Calligraphy presents the case against the sportification, commercialization and militarization of karate with reference to the budo karate of Ari Anastasiadis, father of Shotokan in Canada. The author discusses the karate of Asai, Egami, Kanasawa, Kase, Kobota, Nakayama, Oshima, Oyama, PlÃ©e, Tokitsu, Yokota and others in and around Shotokan. The author discusses various Shotokan karate organizations and their positions relative to the budo karate-sport karate debate. Karate as Calligraphy discusses the â€˜naturalâ€™ natural stance, Nakayamaâ€™s hard-soft personal style, Mabuniâ€™s 5 principals, classic ipon kumite, the 20 Chinese precepts and much more. Karate as Calligraphy explains how Funakoshi conceived karate a non-competitive, community-oriented form of personal and social development in the Okinawan tradition. The author concludes that Funakoshiâ€™s karate has never been well understood in Japan let alone in the wider world. It is the authorâ€™s hope that Karate as Calligraphy will contribute to the revival of the budo tradition in Shotokan.

Country	USA
Author	Tom Levitt
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781523367696
ISBN	1523367695
Label	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
MPN	black & white illustrations
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	140
PartNumber	black & white illustrations
PublicationDate	2016-01-18
Publisher	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Studio	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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