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Okinawan karate training manual reprint presenting the teachings of Choki Motobu in an illustrated bilingual paperback format.
Title and author: Okinawan Kempo by Choki Motobu.
Series and affiliation: Landmark work on traditional Okinawan kempo and karate, reproducing Motobu\'s original 1926 text on fighting principles, kata, and combative applications.
Publisher and publication details: Published by Masters Publication, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with copyright page crediting Masters Publication 1995 and noting that the material was first published in May 1926 by the Ryukyu Karate-Do Shihan-Kai in Japan.
Format and language: English and Japanese text in a softcover paperback with a colour-illustrated cover showing a stylized martial figure and Japanese characters, black-and-white interior photographs, calligraphic pages, and instructional layouts.
Contents and subjects: Presents Choki Motobu\'s approach to Okinawan kempo, including training ideas, core techniques and stances, demonstrations of applications, historical notes on his life and dojo, and period photographs of Motobu and his students.
Genre and topics: Nonfiction martial arts reference focusing on karate, self-defence, striking arts, and the history of Okinawan fighting systems.
Intended audience: Adult martial artists, karate students and instructors, historians of Japanese and Okinawan budo, and collectors of classic karate literature and reprinted dojo manuals.
Edition and features: 1995 Masters Publication edition edited and laid out by Annette Hellingrath, with photo reconstructions and reproductions by Branko Gale and Annette Hellingrath, photography by Dale Housser, and an \'About the Author\' section researched and written by Ken Tallack, using information and images taken from Motobu\'s original manuscript.
Identifiers: ISBN 978-0-920129-17-3 with back cover barcode digits reading 9780920129173.
Notes: Please review all photos for views of the front and back covers, spine, copyright page, and sample interior spreads and photographs for this vintage Okinawan kempo karate paperback.
