Kenji Tokitsu

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Kenji Tokitsu (時津賢児, Tokitsu Kenji, born 1 August 1947) is a Japanese author and practitioner of Japanese martial arts. Dr. Tokitsu has also written a scholarly work about the legendary swordsman Musashi Miyamoto. He holds doctorates in sociology and in Japanese language and civilization.

Biography

Kenji Tokitsu was born on 1 August 1947 in Yamaguchi, Japan.^[1] A practitioner of Shotokan karate since youth, in 1984 Tokitsu started his own school, the Shaolin-mon ("door to Shaolin", compare the Mumonkan) school in Paris, where he had taught Shotokan karate since 1971. 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.

Bibliography

Publications include:

The Inner Art of Karate: Cultivating the Budo Spirit in Your Practice, trans. 2012, ISBN 978-1-59030-949-0
Ki and the Way of the Martial Arts, trans. 2003, ISBN 978-1-57062-998-3
Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings, trans. 2004 by Sherab Chödzin Kohn (from the French Miyamoto Musashi, 2000), Boston: Shambhala, ISBN 978-1-59030-045-9 (1st ed., hbk)

References

Shambhala, Biographical article and bibliography at Shambhala Publications
Tokitsu, Sensei Tokitsu: Biography, www.tokitsu.com at Archive.org
Tokitsu, Sensei Tokitsu: Chronology, www.tokitsu.com at Archive.org
Tokitsu, Sensei Tokitsu: Dedication, www.tokitsu.com at Archive.org

Notes

↑ Tokitsu, Biography.

External links

KenjiTokitsu.net (new official website)
Tokitsu.com (old official website, temporarily down as of November 2009)

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Name	Tokitsu, Kenji
Alternative names
Short description	Japanese martial artist and scholar
Date of birth	1 August 1947
Place of birth	Yamaguchi, Japan
Date of death
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