||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Nice but not essential|By Arctic vortex|An ok book. Mainly a compilation of newsletters.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A bridge of understanding.|By Customer|This compilation of writings give an exceptional glimpse at the essence of the Bujinkan and the life of Toshitsugo Takamatsu, who transmitted an old|About the Author|Masaaki Hatsumi graduated from Meiji University in Tokyo, with a major in theater studies, and osteopathic medicine. Soon after graduation he opened a bone clinic in his home town and his practice continued on a steady basis until about 1990 wh
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi, inheritor of nine martial arts schools and a lineage spanning over 1,000 years, authored a series of newsletters to serve as a useful guide and reference for maturing martial arts students around the world. The articles contained within Tetsuzan (“Iron Mountain”) are diverse: interviews with “The Last Combat Ninja” Soke Toshitsugu Takamatsu, the symbolic back-story of the...
