Kenji Tokitsu

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Dr. Kenji Tokitsu is a noted author and practitioner of Japanese martial arts, who has also written scholarly works on a number of subjects such as Musashi Miyamoto; he holds doctorates in sociology and in Japanese language and civilization.

A practitioner of Shotokan karate since youth, in 1983 Tokitsu started his own school, the Shaolin-mon ("door to Shaolin", compare the Mumonkan) school in Paris, where he had taught Shotokan karate since 1973. The Shaolin-mon teachings were a hybrid of Tokitsu's dissatisfaction with Shotokan karate combined with what he learned of Chinese martial arts. Still later, he founded the Tokitsu-ryu Academy in 2001.

[edit] Partial bibliography

Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings, trans. 2004 by Sherab Chözin Kohn. ISBN 1-59030-045-9
Ki and the Way of the Martial Arts, trans. 2003 ISBN 1-57062-998-6

[edit] External links

Tokitsu's website
- Article on Tokitsu
Biographical article and bibliography at Shambhala Publications' website

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Persondata
NAME	Tokitsu, Kenji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Japanese martial artist and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Japan
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH