Hawaii Karate Museum Collection

 

A martial treasure trove.

 

The University of Hawaii has a collection of ebooks of early books on karate that is awesome.

 

https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/1054

Hawaii Karate Museum Collection

The Okinawa Collection of UHM’s Hamilton Library received a major donation of books, magazines and multi-media resources (over 700 books and CDs/DVDs/video tapes) on karate from the Hawaii Karate Museum. With this important donation, UHM Hamilton Library has become a major resource for Okinawan/Japanese martial arts. The majority of the books are accessible at the Asia and East general collections (3rd & 4th floors). Over 260 rare books and journals have been placed in the Asia Special Collections (4th floor). Advance appointments are necessary to use materials in the Asia Special Collections. The use of the digitized materials on this website is limited to individual research and study

 

The titles available on line can be found at 

https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/1054/browse?type=title&submit_browse=Title

The following specific list for karate can be found at

https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/1054/browse?type=title&submit_browse=Title

 

Issue Date	Title
1958	Anata no mi o mamoru zukai setsumei karate gokui kyohan
1948	How to use the yawara stick for police
1966	Kaitei shashin zukai karate jutsu nyumon hyakuman nin no goshinjutsu
1967	Karate hayawakari
1956	Karate jotatsu ho
1959	Karate kenpo: goshinjutsu hiden (Chinese reprint)
1959	Karate kyohon jodoryu
15-Dec-43	Karate nyumon
1955	Karate-do
1957	Kassatsu jizai saishin goshin hijutsu zensho: zukai setsumei danjo oyo kyoteki hisshoho
1952	Kendo to shinai kyogi
1955	Me de miru karate nyumon
1956	Nyumon shinsho zukai karate nyumon: shindo jinen-ryu
1956	Okugi hijutsu karate-do
1951	Raifu gojunen kinen: Hawai Okinawa kenjin shashincho: tsuketari Hawai to Okinawa fukei
1952	The secret teachings of self-defense: jujutsu... of the yamato school
1940	Seinen goshinjutsu
195	She mao he hun xing quan
1959	Shoho yori okugi made zukai setsumei karate-do koza
1958	Tangsoo-do kyobon
1957	Zukai karate-do kyohon
1952	Zukai setsumei goshin-jutsu: kobudo kenpo karate katsuyo
1955	Zukai setsumei karate-do nyumon: hyakuman nin no goshinjutsu
1955	Zukai setsumei karate-do nyumon: hyakuman nin no goshinjutsu
Chinese Karate
195	She mao he hun xing quan
Itosu Anko
1956	Okugi hijutsu karate-do

 

Note these volumes are in Japanese. However when you select to view a specific work it opens a .pdf file to brose a copy of the book.

 

Even if y9u can’t read Japanese you can view the photos of the books or even copy them with tne normal .pdf restrictions.

 

This does not describe everything there.