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Kenji Tokitsu is also the name of an actor
Actor

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Dr. Kenji Tokitsu is a noted author and practitioner of Japanese martial arts
Japanese martial arts

Japanese martial arts refers to the enormous variety of martial arts native to Japan. At least three Japanese terms are often used interchangeably with the English phrase "Japanese martial arts": "budo", literally meaning "martial way", , which has no perfect translation but means something like science, art, or craft of war, and ,...
, 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
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, where he had taught Shotokan karate since 1973.






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Kenji Tokitsu is also the name of an actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.


Dr. Kenji Tokitsu is a noted author and practitioner of Japanese martial arts
Japanese martial arts

Japanese martial arts refers to the enormous variety of martial arts native to Japan. At least three Japanese terms are often used interchangeably with the English phrase "Japanese martial arts": "budo", literally meaning "martial way", , which has no perfect translation but means something like science, art, or craft of war, and ,...
, 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
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, 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
Chinese martial arts

Kung fu and wushu are popular terms that have become synonymous with China martial arts. However, the Chinese language terms kung fu and wushu have very different meanings....
. Still later, he founded the Tokitsu-ryu Academy in 2001.

Partial bibliography

  • Miyamoto Musashi
    Miyamoto Musashi

    , also known as Shinmen Takezo, Miyamoto Bennosuke, or by his Buddhist name Niten Doraku, was a Japanese people swordsman famed for his duels and distinctive style....
    : 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


External links

  • The of Kenji Tokitsu
  • website
    • on Tokitsu
  • at Shambhala Publications
    Shambhala Publications

    Shambhala Publications is an independent publishing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. According to the company, it specializes in "books that present creative and conscious ways of transforming the individual, the society, and the planet"....
    ' website