Judo; Appendix: Aikido
Tokyo; (1959): Japan Travel Bureau. Small Octavo. Item #032192
) Fourth edition. Color frontispiece, xii, 176 pages, index, illustrated in black and white throughout. Tomiki was a professor at Kenkoku University in Manchuria and later at the Faculty of Education at Waseda University. Tomiki is credited in devising and introducing new forms of Randori practice in Aikido. He founded his own Aikido system, which has many differences from other Aikido styles, mainly in randori training, and is referred to by several names including Tomiki Aikido, Shodokan Aikido and Sport Aikido. Bound in tan cloth lettered in black, spine lettering black, toning to endpapers most likely from binder's glue, small number 3? in red ink to rear pastedown, rear board does have a bit of a warp, a closed marginal tear on page viii of the introduction. Strange, the spine appears to have some fading but it does not.
Price: $125.00