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Title: Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts: Koryu Uchinadi (Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts) by Patrick McCarthy, Yuriko McCarthy ISBN: 0-8048-2093-7 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book on Kobudo is a geat reference text!
Comment: This text has included a great amount of info on Shinken Taira and his great teachers. There also is a fantastic listing of Okinawan kobudo katas. Mr McCarthy has done a great job on history tracking on this topic
Rating: 2
Summary: Not what I was expecting
Comment: The information is pretty good in the book, I would have liked to have seen more notes from the translator on some of the references made by Taira Sensei, but I'm sure that the translation is correct. For instance on page 10, Taira lists a group of well known kobujutsu masters and whether they lived more than or less than 100 years ago. None of this was clarified in the translation. Also, this very same information was included in an article by Mr. McCarthy in Bugeisha magazine article but never credited there to Taira Shinken, I don't know why.
The production quality isn't quite what I've come to expect from Tuttle and Mr. McCarthy, the photos are a little fuzzy and don't stand out as exceptional. Also, there are a quite a few typing mistakes throughout the text. The numbering of the photos is quite sub-standard and all of the photos are simply numbered sequentially from 1 to 408, they don't match the kata numberings. I don't know if this is from the original translation or not.
Apart from that, there isn't a single historical photo of Taira Shinken, all of the photos except the cover are Mr. McCarthy and an uncredited individual demonstrating the weapons techniques.
Except for the translation itself and the article at the back written by Mr. McCarthy, there isn't much else to this book, certainly not any new photographs which would have been great to see.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ancient but Not Irrelevant
Comment: Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts: Koryu Uchinadi; volume one, ISBN 0-8048-2093-7, and volume two, work well separately but best when taken together. I will review volume two here separately from volume one so that one might make a better decision when it comes to purchasing.
For both the novice and advanced Karate-ka this volume will prove to be an indispensable reference. It contains a brief outline of Karate-do master Kenwa Mabuni's life, details on the influence of Southern Chinese fighting systems (particularly White Crane and Monk Fist styles and their use of Qin Na), and the process which led to the transformation of Karate into a system of Bodo. Of special note in reference to this is the minutes of a meeting featuring Karate-do notables which is reproduced in this volume.
For those practicing Goju-ryu Karate-do take special note of this volume for the text "An Outline of Karate-do" by O'Sensei Chojun Miyagi is contained in full in this volume. Those practicing Kyokushinkai and Isshin-ryu will also find this text of interest. Those in Shotokan-ryu will be surprised to read of the controversy that arose between O'Sensei Funakoshi and controversial Choki Motobu.
If what you want is Okinawan Karate-do technique none surpasses The Essence of Okinawan Karate-do by Shoshin Nagamine, ISBN 0-8048-2110-0 which compliments volume one. If what you are interested in is more specifically the history of Okinawan Karate-do and Kobudo get this book along with Patrick McCarthy's Bubishi: the Bible of Karate, ISBN 0-8048-2015-5.
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Title: The Bible of Karate: Bubishi by Patrick McCarthy ISBN: 0804820155 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Okinawan Karate: Teachers, Styles, and Secret Techniques by Mark Bishop ISBN: 0804832056 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Classical Kata of Okinawan Karate (Japanese Arts) by Pat McCarthy, Mike Lee ISBN: 0897501136 Publisher: Ohara Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do: (Shorin-Ryu) by Shoshin Nagamine ISBN: 0804821100 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Tales of Okinawa's Great Masters by Shoshin Nagamine, Patrick McCarthy ISBN: 0804820899 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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