Book of Secrets
Many have been asking, so I will let you know that the translation of the new book is complete.The English text has been submitted to Kodansha and we should see the release sometime around April this year, if all goes well.
Without getting myself into trouble, the following is a basic outline of the content per memory:
-Mindset on Budo Taijutsu
-Kihon Happo
-Chapters on the main Ryuha (the ones we have focused on) including step by step explanation of the waza for the various levels.
The cool thing is that at the end of each Ryuha Chapter, the record of Takamatsu sensei or Hatsumi Soke is there, as well as a few columns from Soke regarding training. So in a sense, very much in the format of what one would imagine the Densho to look like.
It will be a great asset to anyone studying Budo.
January 25, 2008 at 9:28 am
Can’t wait, should be a good read. But we must not forget that Budo is not a science. Even though you were probably paid for the translation doug, I Thank you for your work.
Greetings from Belgium, Christophe
January 25, 2008 at 11:55 am
Dear Bujinkan readers,
This book will be a major turn concerning our vision and understanding of the Bujinkan system developped by Hatsumi Sensei over the last 40 years. I see this as the beginning of a new era for the Bujinkan and I urge you all to continue to train hard and also to continue coming to Japan.
Don’t forget that, after Shioda Sensei (Yoshinkan Aikidou), Hatsumi Sensei remains the last “real Sensei” still alive in Japan!
Over the years, many Bujinkan high ranks have been spending more time arguing over one another than really training. This new book means that playtime is over and that it is time to go back to work.
I wish that this new era will see more people listening to Sensei and train hard than it has been the case until now.
Remember that this year is “Menkyou Kaiden” and that we have to develop a new “Kuukan”!
Regards
Arnaud Cousergue
January 26, 2008 at 4:21 am
Doug,
Many thanks to you and Craig and who ever else is involved in doing the translating. I have always appreciated your clear and concise work.
During your work, was there any inkling from soke that he was at all apprehensive that people would take this book the wrong way. Is he worried at all that people will focus only on the Kata in the book? Does he see this potentially as a way “thin the ranks” of the unfocused?
Thanks,
Marty
January 27, 2008 at 5:10 am
What will be the title of the book?
I was on amazon.com and there is a “Unarmed Fighting Techniques of the Samurai” coming out in May. Is this the same one?
looking forward to it!
January 27, 2008 at 11:04 pm
can.t wait to get this book .it will hopefully enrich our training and give us a better understanding of what soke is trying to instill in us
also i agree what shihan arnauld wrote
January 31, 2008 at 3:13 am
Soke’s budo is not what is written in the densho…
Soke’s budo is what is *NOT* written in the densho.
-ben
January 31, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Thanks Ben. a reminder that we should all study train with Soke and with people who train directly from him.
What about “our” budo as it relates to the never-ending study of Soke’s Budo? Should we not study the densho? I shall.
What again is the title of the book? i hope to pre-order it
February 1, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Hello,
I`m not that much excited as the other guests but still am waiting
to see the book and how the material will be presented in there.
I see it the same way as Mr. Cole (if I understood right!!):
whatever will possibly be apparent in this book,
the greatest part will nevertheless be not.
What I`m especially curious about is the “waza-collecting-thing”.
Can photos (even if step by step) be as clear as a moving icture
and therefore stop or at least heavily constrict the waza-collectors?
Hopefully this book will help to stop the many unnecessary discusions
about which or those teacher(s) have really “understood” Hatsumi soke.
In the end most of us will probably keep their training as usually
with only “just” a (likely very good, of course) further source
helping their everyday training and understanding of things.
Criticism - which has nothing to do with your work itself - aside,
I`d like congratulate you on doing such a difficult, decent work
and for sure I will buy this book at the time it will be available.
Best wishes from
Berlin, Germany
Wilf Muecke
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