Kenji Tokitsu
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{{Nihongo|Kenji Tokitsu|時津 賢児|Tokitsu Kenji|born 1 August 1947}} is a Japanese author and practitioner of Japanese martial arts. 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. 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.shambhala.com/authors/o-t/kenji-tokitsu.html|title=Authors: Kenji Tokitsu|publisher=Shambhala Publications}} 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.
He was interviewed for his thoughts on Japanese culture in Chris Marker's 1996 documentary film Level Five.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bam.org/film/2014/level-five|title=Level Five}}
Books
- Tokitsu, Kenji, 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, [https://web.archive.org/web/20060328011906/http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/author/656.cfm Biographical article and bibliography] at Shambhala Publications
- Tokitsu, {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224055340/http://www.tokitsu.com/en/presentation/sensei-tokitsu/biography.html |date=24 December 2007 |title=Sensei Tokitsu: Biography }}, www.tokitsu.com
- Tokitsu, {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305025122/http://www.tokitsu.com/en/presentation/sensei-tokitsu/chronology.html |date=5 March 2008 |title=Sensei Tokitsu: Chronology }}, www.tokitsu.com
- Tokitsu, {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080105061016/http://www.tokitsu.com/en/presentation/sensei-tokitsu.html |date=5 January 2008 |title=Sensei Tokitsu: Dedication }}, www.tokitsu.com
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External links
- www.tokitsuryu.it (new official website)
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCh1-XIjKqw YouTube video of Kenji]
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