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Suggested Reading List for Karate Students
Required:
� Karate-do Kyohan The Master Text by Gichin Funakoshi
� Notes on Training by Tsutomu Ohshima
� Karate-do: My Way of Life by Gichin Funakoshi
� The Heart of Karate-Do by Shigeru Egami

Highly recommended:
� Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (Bantam Books)
� The Art of War by Sun Tzu
� The Sword of No-Sword: Life of the Master Warrior Tesshu by John Stevens
� The Unfettered Mind: Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master by Takuan Soho
� The Sword and the Mind by Yagyu Munenori,
� Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
� Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors by William Scott Wilson
� The Code of the Samurai by Yuzan Daidoji

� Karate-Do Nyumon: The Master Introductory Text by Gichin Funakoshi
� The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master by Gichin Funakoshi
� Karate Jutsu: The Original Teachings of Gichin Funakoshi
� Three Budo Masters by John Stevens

� Forty-Seven Ronin Story by John Allyn
� Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
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