Karate Bibliography

Recommended books:

A Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi
Chasing Bushido – Richard Amos
Karate Stupid – Scott Langley (publisher – eBookPartnership.com)
A Short History of Karate – Michael Cowe and Robert Dyson (publisher: Kenkyo-ha Goju Kempo Karate Kai)
Best Karate Volume 1: Comprehensive – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Essential Karate Book: For White Belts, Black Belts and All Levels In Between – Graeme Lund (publisher: Tuttle Publishing)
Funakoshi, Father of Modern Karate – Willy J. Ortiz (publisher: Willy J. Ortiz)
History and Traditions of Okinawan Karate – Tetsuhiro Hokama (publisher: Master Publ.)
Karate As the Art of Killing: A Study of Its Deadly Origins, Ideology of Peace, and the Techniques of Shito-Ryu – Masayuki Shimabukuro and Leonard J. Pellman (publisher: Blue Snake Books, an imprint of North Atlantic Books)
Karate Goju by the Cat – Gogen Yamaguchi (publisher: International Karate-do Goju-kai)
Karate History and Traditions – Bruce A. Haines (publisher: Charles E Tuttle Company, Inc.)
Karate The Complete Kata – Hirokazu Kanazawa (publisher: Kodansha International)
Karate-do The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master – Gichin Funakoshi (publisher: Kodansha International)
Okinawan Karate: Teachers, Styles and Secret Techniques (also Okinawan Karate, Second Edition) – Mark Bishop (publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd.)
Shotokan Advanced Kata – Keinosuke Enoeda (Publisher: David Chambers)
Shotokan Karate A Precise History – Harry Cook (publisher: Classical Fighting Arts)
Shotokan Karate International Kata Volume 1 – H. Kanazawa (publisher: Shotokan Karate Int’l)
The Bible of Karate Bubishi – Patrick McCarthy (publisher: Tuttle Publishing)
The History of Karate and the Masters Who Made It – Mark I. Cramer (publisher: Blue Snake Books)

Full list:

100 Masters of Okinawan Karate – Tetsuhiro Hokama (publisher: Ozata Print)
11 Innovations in Karate – Shojiro Sugiyama (publisher: J. Toguri)
25 Shotokan Kata – Shojiro Sugiyama (publisher: Shojiro Sugiyama)
26 Shotokan Kata Extended Reference Manual – Jose Ramon Alvarex Ruiz-Huidobro (publisher: Independently published)
A Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi
Chasing Bushido – Richard Amos
Karate Stupid – Scott Langley (publisher – eBookPartnership.com)
A Critical Bibliography of the Ryukyu Islands and their people – Shannon McCune (publisher: University of Hawaii)
A Short History of Karate – Michael Cowe and Robert Dyson (publisher: Kenkyo-ha Goju Kempo Karate Kai)
Advanced Shotokan Karate Kata – John van Weenen (publisher: Summersdale Publishers)
Analysis of Genuine Karate: Misconceptions, Origins, Development, and True Purpose – Hermann Bayer, Ph.D. (publisher: YMAA Publication Center)
Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts, Volume 2: Koryu Uchinadi – Patrick and Yuriko McCarthy (publisher: Tuttle Publishing)
Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts: Koryu Uchinadi Volume One – Patrick McCarthy (publisher: Tuttle Publishing)
Asian Fighting Arts – Donn F. Draeger and Robert W. Smith (publisher: Kodansha International Ltd.)
Best Karate Volume 1: Comprehensive – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Best Karate Volume 10: Unsu, Sochin, Nijushiho – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Best Karate Volume 11: Gojushiho-Dai, Gojushiho-Sho, Meikyo – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Best Karate Volume 2: Fundamentals – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Best Karate Volume 3: Kumite 1 – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Best Karate Volume 4: Kumite 2 – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Best Karate Volume 5: Heian, Tekki – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Best Karate Volume 6: Bassai, Kanku – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Best Karate Volume 7: Jitte, Hangetsu, Empi – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Best Karate Volume 8: Gankaku, Jion – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Best Karate Volume 9: Bassai-Sho, Kanku-Sho, Chinte – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Black Belt Karate – Chris Thompson (publisher: Crowood Press)
Bubishi: The Classic Manual of Combat – Patrick McCarthy (publisher: Tuttle Publishing)
Bunkai Jutsu: The Practical Application of Karate Kata – Iain Abernethy (publisher: NETH Publishing)
Bunkai of the Shôtôkan-Kata Up to Black Belt / Vol. 3 – Fiore Tartaglia (publisher: Spectra Verlag)
Bunkai Secrets of Karate Kata: Volume 1: The Tekki Series – Elmar Schmeisser (publisher: Usagi Press)
Channan: Heart of the Heians – Elmar Schmeisser (publisher: Usagi Press)
Classical Bujutsu and Modern Budo & Bujutsu – Donn F. Draeger (publisher: Weatherhill)
Classical Fighting Arts of Japan: A Complete Guide to Koryu Jujutsu – Serge Mol (publisher: Kodansha International)
Classical Kata of Okinawan Karate – Patrick McCarthy (publisher: Ohara Publications, Inc.)
Conversations with the Master: Masatoshi Nakayama – Randall G. Hassell and Teruyuki Okazaki (publisher: Palmerston & Reed)
Dynamic Karate – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Empty Hand: The Essence of Budo-Karate – Kenei Mabuni, Masahiko Yokoyama (publisher: Palisander Verlag)
Encyclopédie des Arts Martiaux – R. and G. Habersetzer (publisher: Amphora)
Essence of Karate Textbook No. 1: Okinawa Karate-Do Goju-Ryu Shorei-Kan – Seikichi Toguchi (publisher: Shorei-Kan Canada Karate Association)
Essence of Karate Textbook No. 2: Okinawa Karate-Do Goju-Ryu Shorei-Kan – Seikichi Toguchi (publisher: Shorei-Kan Canada Karate Association)
Essential Karate Book: For White Belts, Black Belts and All Levels In Between – Graeme Lund (publisher: Tuttle Publishing)
Essentials of Chinese Wushu – Bin Wu; Xingdong Li; Kung-pao Yü (publisher: Foreign Languages Press)
Five Years One Kata: Putting Kata Back at the Heart of Karate – Bill Burgar (publisher: Martial Arts Publishing Ltd.)
Funakoshi, Father of Modern Karate – Willy J. Ortiz (publisher: Willy J. Ortiz)
Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Desk Reference Volume 1 – Introduction & Historic Chronology – Johnpaul Williams (publisher: Independently Published)
Hagakure. The Book of the Samurai – T. Yamamoto (publisher: Stackpole Books)
History and Traditions of Okinawan Karate – Tetsuhiro Hokama (publisher: Master Publ.)
History of Japan – James Murdoch (publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd)
In Kata Is Everything You Need – E. Sefer (publisher: Schäffer Consult)
Introduction to Karate – Gichin Funakoshi (publisher: Independently Published)
Japanese Karate – Japanese Karate-do Federation (publisher: Inforest)
Japanese Karate-do Federation, Karate-do Kata Model for Teaching – Japanese Karate-do Federation (publisher: Inforest)
Japanese Martial Arts – Neil Horton (publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd.)
Kanji & Kana – Hadamitzky W. and Durmous P. (publisher: Tuttle Publishing)
Kankudai – H. Kanazawa (co-authored with N.B.Adamou) (publisher: Paul H. Crompton)
Karate As the Art of Killing: A Study of Its Deadly Origins, Ideology of Peace, and the Techniques of Shito-Ryu – Masayuki Shimabukuro and Leonard J. Pellman (publisher: Blue Snake Books, an imprint of North Atlantic Books)
Karate Do Daiho Kan – Kanken Toyama (publisher: Kanken Toyama)
Karate fighting techniques: The complete kumite – H. Kanazawa, R. Berger (publisher: Kodansha International)
Karate Goju by the Cat – Gogen Yamaguchi (publisher: International Karate-do Goju-kai)
Karate Hayai Wakari – Keishichi Ishiguro (publisher: Keishichi Ishiguro)
Karate History and Traditions – Bruce A. Haines (publisher: Charles E Tuttle Company, Inc.)
Karate Jutsu: The Original Teachings of Master Funakoshi – Gichin Funakoshi (publisher: Kodansha International)
Karate Kata: Heian 1 Tekki 1 – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Karate Kata: Heian 2 Heian 3 – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Karate Kata: Heian 4 – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Karate Kata: Heian 5 – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Karate Kata: Tekki 2 Tekki 3 – Masatoshi Nakayama (publisher: Kodansha)
Karate Masters – Jose M. Fraguas (publisher: Unique Publications)
Karate No Narai Kata – Reikichi Oya (publisher: Tokaido Shuppansha)
Karate The Complete Kata – Hirokazu Kanazawa (publisher: Kodansha International)
Karate Uchina-Di: Okinawan Karate: An Exploration of its Origins and Evolution – Itzik Cohen (publisher: Itzik Cohen)
Karate: A Master’s Secrets of Uechi-ryu – Ihor Rymaruk (publisher: Iron Arm International)
Karate: My Art – Choki Motobu (publisher: International Ryukyu Karate Research Group)
Karate: My life – H. Kanazawa (publisher: Kendo World Publications)
Karate – the art of empty hand fighting – Hidetaka Nishiyama and Richard C. Brown (publisher: Tuttle Publishing)
Karate’s Grappling Methods: Understanding Kata and Bunkai – Iain Abernethy (publisher: Summersdale Publishers)
Karate-do – Kanken Toyama
Karate-Do History and Philosophy – Nakaya T. (publisher: JSS)
Karate-do Kyohan – Gichin Funakoshi (publisher: Tokyo Okura Kobundo)
Karate-Do Kyohan: The Master Text – Gichin Funakoshi (publisher: Kodansha International)
Karate-do Kyoku Ikyohan – Yukitake Yashiro (publisher: Yukitake Yashiro)
Karate-do Nyumon – Gichin Funakoshi (publisher: Tuttle Publishing)
Karate-do The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master – Gichin Funakoshi (publisher: Kodansha International)
Karate-do: My Way of Life – Gichin Funakoshi (publisher: Kodansha International Ltd.)
Karate-do: Perfecting Kumite – Masahiko Tanaka (publisher: Sake Publishers)
Karatedo-Mein Weg – Gichin Funakoshi (publisher: Kodansha Int. & Werner Kristkeitz Verlag)
Kata and the Transmission of Knowledge: In Traditional Martial Arts – Michael Rosenbaum (publisher: YMAA Publication Center)
Kata: The Folk Dances of Shotokan – Rob Redmond (publisher: Lulu)
Katsujinken: Living Karate and the Way to Self-Mastery – Shimabukuro Masayuki Hanshi and Leonard J. Pellman (publisher: North Atlantic Books)
Kempo Gaisetsu – Takada (Mutsu) Mizuho & Miki Nisaburo (publisher: Takada (Mutsu) Mizuho & Miki Nisaburo)
Kempo Karate-do – Universal Art of Self-Defense – Tsuyoshi Chitose (publisher: Tsuyoshi Chitose)
Kenpo (Okinawan) – Choki Motobu (publisher: Rising Sun)
Ko Matayoshi Shinpo Sensei Kokusai Enbu Taikai – Matayoshi Kobudo Kodokan (publisher: Kodokan)
Ko Ryukyu (Old Ryukyu) – Iha Fuyu (publisher: Iha Fuyu)
Kodo: Ancient Ways – Kensho Furuya (publisher: Ohara)
Kyoku Ikyohan Karate – Yukitake Yashiro (publisher: Tokyo)
Lessons from the Dojo Floor – Kris Wilder (publisher: Xlibris)
Lessons with the Master: 279 Karate lessons with Master Hirokazu Kanazawa – P. A. Walker (publisher: iUniverse)
Living the Martial Way – Forrest E. Morgan (publisher: Barricade Books)
Manual of Zen Buddhism – D.T. Suzuki (publisher: Grove Press)
Martial Arts and Ways of Japan – Donn Draeger (publisher: Weatherhill)
Martial Arts in the Modern World – Thomas A. Green and Joseph R. Svinth (ed.) (publisher: Praeger Publishers, Inc.)
Martial Arts Instruction: Applying Educational Theory and Communication Techniques in the Dojo – Lawrence A. Kane (publisher: YMAA)
Martial Arts Politics Explained – Jonathan Bluestein (publisher: Jonathan Bluestein)
Matayoshi Kobudo Kodokan – Matayoshi Kobudo Kodokan (publisher: Kodokan)
Matsumura Seito Shorin-ryu – Richard Kim (publisher: Ohara)
Moving Zen: One man’s journey to the heart of Karate – C. W. Nicol, M. Ikeda, H. Kanazawa (publisher: Kodansha International)
My Journey with the Grandmaster-Reflections of an American Martial Artist on Okinawa – William R. Hayes (publisher: Morris Publishing)
Okinawa Den Goju Ryu Karate-do – Eiichi Miyazato (publisher: Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate-do So Honbu Jundokan)
Okinawa Issen-nen Shi (A Thousand Years of Okinawan History) – Majikina Anko (publisher: Majikina Anko)
Okinawa Karate Hidden Bubishi (also Okinawa Karate-Do Hiden Bubishi Shinshaku) – Tokashiki Iken (publisher: Tokashiki Iken)
Okinawa Karate- The Exquisite Art – David Chambers, Taku Ikemiyagy, Robert Dohrenwend (publisher: Dragon Associates. Inc. & Ikemiya Shokai Co., Ltd.)
Okinawa Karate Timeline & 100 Masters – Tetsuhiro Hokama (publisher: Master Publ.)
Okinawa Kenpo Karate Jutsu – Motobu (publisher: Motobu)
Okinawa Rekishi Nempyo (Chronological Tables of Okinawan History) – Yonaguni Zenzo (publisher: Yonaguni Zenzo)
Okinawa Ryukyu (The Ryukyus) – Okinawa-ken Kyoiku-kai (publisher: Okinawa-ken Kyoiku-kai)
Okinawa, The History of an Island People – George H. Kerr (publisher: Tuttle Publishing)
Okinawan Goju Ryu – Seikichi Toguchi (publisher: Black Belt Communications)
Okinawan Karate: Teachers, Styles and Secret Techniques (also Okinawan Karate, Second Edition) – Mark Bishop (publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd.)
Okinawan Karate-do: The Preservation of a Traditional Legacy – Shoshin Nagamine (publisher: Shinjinbutsuorai-sha)
Okinawan Kobudo The History, Tools, and Techniques of the Ancient Martial Art – Andrea Guarelli (publisher: Independently published)
Outline of Karate-do – Miyagi Chojun (publisher: Miyagi Chojun)
Perfection of Character: Guiding Principles for the Martial arts & Everyday Life – Teruyuki Okazaki (publisher: International Shotokan Karate Federation)
Post-War Okinawa – F.R. Pitts, W.P. Lebra and Wayne P. Suttles (publisher: Pacific Science Board (SIRI Ser. No. 8) National Research Council, Washington)
Practical Karate: A guide to everyman’s self-defense – M. Nakayama, D. F. Draeger (publisher: Tuttle)
Pressure Point Fighting: A Guide to the Secret Heart of Asian Martial Arts – Rick Clark (publisher: Tuttle Publishing)
Ryukyu Kobudo Taikan – Taira Shinken (publisher: Taira Shinken)
Ryukyu Kokon Ki (Ryukyu, Past and Present) – Iha Fuyu (publisher: Iha Fuyu)
Ryukyu Ocho Jidai Kobudo Karatedo – Matayoshi Shinpo (publisher: Scritto privato)
Sai-Jutsu – Il tridente di Okinawa – Andrea Guarelli (publisher: Edizioni Andrea Guarelli)
Secrets of Uechi Ryu and the Mysteries of Okinawa – Allan Dollar (publisher: Cherokee Publishing)
Seipai no Kenkyu Gosh-ijutsu Hiden Karate-do Kempo (and its second edition Kobojizai Karate-do Kempo and the Study of Seipai) – Mabuni Kenwa (publisher: Mabuni Kenwa)
Seisetsu Okinawa Karate-do, Sono Rekishi w Gilw – Kanyei Uechi (publisher: Kanyei Uechi)
Shihan-Te: The Bunkai of Karate Kata – Darrell Craig and Paul Anderson (publisher: YMAA Publication Center)
Shindō Yoshin Ryu, History and Technique – Tobin Threadgill and Shingo Ohgami (publisher: Classical Fighting Arts)
Shindo Yoshin-ryu – Katsunosuke Matsuoka (publisher: Katsunosuke Matsuoka)
Shorin Ryu-Okinawan Karate Question and Answer Book – William Cummins / Robert Scaglione (publisher: Person-to-Person Publishing, Inc.)
Shotokan Advanced Kata – Keinosuke Enoeda (Publisher: David Chambers)
Shotokan Karate A Precise History – Harry Cook (publisher: Classical Fighting Arts)
Shotokan Karate International Kata Volume 1 – H. Kanazawa (publisher: Shotokan Karate Int’l)
Shotokan Karate International Kata Volume 2 – H. Kanazawa (publisher: Shotokan Karate Int’l)
Shotokan Karate: Its History and Evolution – Randall G. Hassell (publisher: Damashi)
Shotokan’s Secret: The Hidden Truth Behind Karate’s Fighting Origins – Bruce D. Clayton (publisher: Ohara)
Sword and Spirit. Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan, Volume #2 – Diane Skoss (Editor) (publisher: Koryu Books)
Tales of Okinawa’s Great Masters – Shoshin Nagamine (publisher: Tuttle Publishing)
The Art of War – Sun Tzu (publisher: Mladinska knjiga Založba d.d.)
The Bible of Karate Bubishi – Patrick McCarthy (publisher: Tuttle Publishing)
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Karate – Randall G. Hassell and Edmond Otis (publisher: Penguin Group (USA))
The Endless Quest – The Autobiography of an American Karate Pioneer – William J. Dometrich (publisher: William J. Dometrich)
The Essence of Karate – Gichin Funakoshi (publisher: Kodansha International)
The Essence of Okinawan Karate – Shoshin Nagamine (publisher: Tuttle Martial Arts)
The Globalization of Martial Arts – Thomas A. Green and Joseph R. Svinth (ed.) (publisher: Praeger Publishers, Inc.)
The Hand Is My Sword: A Karate Handbook – Robert A. Trias (publisher: Robert A. Trias)
The Heart of Karate-do – Shigeru Egami (publisher: Kodansha International)
The History of Karate and the Masters Who Made It – Mark I. Cramer (publisher: Blue Snake Books)
The History of Karate: Okinawan Goju Ryu – Morio Higaonna (publisher: Dragon Books)
The History of the Ryūkyū Karate (publisher: The History of the Ryūkyū Karate)
The Inner Art of Karate – Kenji Tokitsu (publisher: Shambhala Publications)
The Karate Way – Dave Lowry (publisher: Shambhala Publications)
The Kata and Bunkai of Goju-Ryu Karate: The Essence of the Heishu and Kaishu Kata – Giles Hopkins (publisher: Blue Snake Books)
The Shotokan Karate Bible: Beginner to Black Belt – Ashley Martin (publisher: Bloomsbury)
The Shotokan Karate Handbook — Beginner to Black Belt – Gursharan Sahota (publisher: Gursharan Sahota)
The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate – Gichin Funakoshi (publisher: Kodansha International)
The Untold Story of Kanbun Uechi – Keisuke Fujimoto (publisher: Keisuke Fujimoto)
The Way of Karate – George E. Mattson (publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Inc.)
The Way of Karate: Beyond Technique – Shigeru Egami (publisher: Littlehampton)
The Way of Kata: A Comprehensive Guide to Deciphering Martial Applications – Lawrence A. Kane and Kris Wilder (publisher: YMAA Publication Center)
The Weaponless Warriors: An Informal History of Okinawan Karate – Richard Kim (publisher: Ohara)
The Zen Way to the Martial Arts – Taisen Deshimaru (publisher: Penguin)
Three Budo Masters – John Stevens (publisher: Kodansha International Ltd.)
Throws for Strikers: The Forgotten Throws of Karate, Boxing, and Taekwondo – Iain Abernethy (publisher: Summersdale Publishers)
Tomaya Kanken-The Heritage of Shudokan – Christian Bellina (publisher: Christian Bellina, MSc, DAgrSc)
To-Te Jitsu – Gichin Funakoshi (publisher: Masters)
Traditional Karate Coach’s Manual – H. Nishiyama (publisher: International Traditional Karate Federation)
Uechi Ryu Karate-Do Student Guide and Handbook – Donald B. Joyner (publisher: Donald B. Joyner)
Uechiryu Karate Do (Classical Chinese Okinawan Self Defense) – George E. Mattson (publisher: Peabody Publishing Company)
Uechi-Ryu Manual – Okinawa Karate Style Research Project (publisher: Independently published)
Wandering Along the Way of Okinawan Karate: Thinking About Goju-Ryu – Giles Hopkins (publisher: North Atlantic Books)
What is Karate – Masutatsu Oyama (publisher: Japan Publications Trading Co)