Kinjo Hiroshi
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Investigations, Volume 2 available now
Volume 2 of “Investigations into the history of karate” is available now. Based on this blog, the book traces a range of historical contexts in which karate surfaces, from everyday settings such as plantations in Hawaiʻi around 1900 and personal diary entries from the early twentieth century. Other contributions draw on visual and textual sources,… Continue reading
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A previously overlooked manuscript (1936)
Handwritten historical sources on karate are exceedingly rare. Whenever one surfaces, it electrifies the karate world—especially the small circle of karate historians. One need only recall the unique book by Kyan Chōtoku (1870–1945), discovered some time ago, translated by Patrick McCarthy, and later made accessible as part of an anthology on the master in 2023.… Continue reading
Investigations into the history of karate 