Karate-do Kyohan Facsimile reprint of the original 1935 edition

This Identical Reprint Of Gichin Funakoshi'S Karate-Do Kyohan Is One Of The Most Awaited Reprints Of Karatekas From All Over The World. The Book Had Been Widely Distributed Through Its Japanese Reissue During The 20Th Century. However These Modern Editions Had Not Been Able To Benefit From A Revision By The Author Who Died In 1957. Worse The Modernization Of Those Editions Had Resulted In Significant Changes To The 1935 Text. This Book Wants To Go Further By Offering In Paper Form The Facsimile As Originally Published. The Project Is Driven By Two Convictions. First That The Japanese Language Is No More Of An Obstacle Than Reading An Ancient Martial Arts Textbook: One Can Appreciate The Iconography Without Grasping Everything Of The Text That Supports It. And Then The Ultimate Conviction: That On Balance It Is Better To Choose The Original.