 | Unarmed Fighting Techniques of the Samurai by Masaaki Hatsumi
Buy new: £13.14 / Used from: £9.99 The formal kata of the Bujinkan
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 | The Way of the Ninja: Secret Techniques by Masaaki Hatsumi
Buy new: £15.31 / Used from: £7.99 The Boss' summary of Ninpo
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 | Japanese Sword Fighting: Secrets of the Samurai by Masaaki Hatsumi
Buy new: £14.80 / Used from: £4.62 Sword kata and things you need to know
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 | Essence of Ninjutsu: The Nine Traditions by Masaaki Hatsumi
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £5.72 Great intro to the Bujinkan with loads of old stories
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 | Stick Fighting: Techniques of Self-Defense by Masaaki Hatsumi
Buy new: £6.67 / Used from: £4.40 Hanbo and kata with small sticks from Kukishin school (also shows training at the point in history when Soke started teaching Westerners)
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 | The Grandmaster's Book of Ninja Training by Masaaki Hatsumi
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £10.78 Interveiw with the Boss many years ago - he's still saying the same things
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 | Advanced Stick Fighting by Masaaki Hatsumi
Buy new: £15.46 / Used from: £12.01 Bo and Jo kata from the Kukishin school
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 | Ninjutsu: History and Tradition by Masaaki Hatsumi
Buy used from: £37.34 Good intro to our history
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 | Understand? Good Play!: Words of Consequence by Benjamin Cole
A westerner's notes from training in Japan - great to read on tube!
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 | Ninpo: Wisdom for Life by Masaaki Hatsumi
Buy used from: £50.00 Old book on ninpo philosophy - less mature than his more recent books, but the content is brilliant
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 | Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real World Violence by Sgt. Rory Miller
Buy new: £9.04 / Used from: £6.65 A good grounding in reality by a traditional martial artist who fights a lot
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 | Kishido: The Way of the Western Warrior by Peter Charles Hobart
Buy used from: £22.11 A lovely book on becoming a "gentleman knight" (which is the Boss' phrase for what he thinks we should strive for) by a really smart guy who studies other traditional arts
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 | Seven Military Classics of Ancient China, The (History and Warfare) by Ralph Sawyer
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £3.91 Heavy going but this is a good translation of all the key oriental military texts
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 | Go Rin No Sho: A Book by Miyamoto Musashi
Buy new: £11.66 / Used from: £8.32 Musahi's book
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 | Shogun Scrolls: On Controlling All Aspects of the Realm (The martial arts library) by Stephen F. Kaufman
Buy used from: £0.01 Japan's equivalent of Machiavelli (see below)
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 | The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: £5.44 / Used from: £4.53 Machiavelli's art of war - a western work that covers the same stuff as sun tzu or the 7 classics and is easier to understand
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 | The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £1.41 Machiavelli's book on giverning - a western work that covers the same stuff as the shogun's scrolls and is easier to understand
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 | Secret Tactics: Lessons from the Great Masters of Martial Arts by Kazumi Tabata
Buy new: £8.55 / Used from: £4.91 Transaltion of writings from a few key martial artists of old
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