Reading List

Required:

• • Karate-do Kyohan The Master Text by Gichin Funakoshi

  • Karate-do: My Way of Life by Gichin Funakoshi

  • Notes on Training by Tsutomu Ohshima (Out of print)

  • 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 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