Kenji Tokitsu

{{short description|Japanese martial artist and scholar}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2009}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}

{{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.<ref name=SP>{{Cite web|url=http://www.shambhala.com/authors/o-t/kenji-tokitsu.html|title=Authors: Kenji Tokitsu|publisher=Shambhala Publications}}</ref> 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.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bam.org/film/2014/level-five|title=Level Five}}</ref>

==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)<ref name=SP/>

==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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