Hi everybody!

I am a martial artist (Shotokan Karate, Hung Gar Kung Fu, Sanda, Wing chun and JJ all ex-now and a little bit Judo! ) and book collector. I have many different (combat)judo manuals from the ww2 and other eras. in addition manuals from the japanese self defense force / chinese marines and many many other forces. I have spend years on research to find some of them.

I am searching a very very rare manual:

Tomiki Kenji was a great teacher! He also instructed the secret Kempeitai units in a special version of Aikijutsu and wrote a small manual about it.

If anybody could give me the name or any other information about it i would be grateful!!

Thank you very much in advance!!

Nice Greetings

Florian

Florian, I moved your post since it will probably get more views here.

Thank you very much Gaijin Judoka!

Tomiki sensei did in fact write such a manual, circa 1938. Published by the Kanto-gun Kempeitai (i.e., Japanese Imperial Army Group Manchuria, Military Police), who hired Tomiki to head to Manchuria in the first place (1935? don't have my notes handy.)

I know someone that has an original of the manual you're asking about, and there are other, older materials regarding this particular branch of aikibujutsu, as taught by Tomiki and Ueshiba to the Japanese Imperial military; I've seen them. Some of the materials are from the Kobukan, or, at least credited to the Kobukan, and date from the mid-1930's. The manual you ask about is, in fact, very, very rare, but it exists; I saw a notice for an original for sale in Japan a couple of months ago, from a very reputable dealer, but by the time I contacted the seller it was already gone. :<

I saw a thread on this some time ago. See:

http://www.e-budo.com/forum/showthread.php...ighlight=tomiki

The manual is, as far as anyone seems to know, completely unique. About the only link in writing between prewar aikibujutsu and the postwar derivatives.

And, what's even more interesting perhaps is that it seems there are directly derived arts from this prewar 'aikibujutsu' being practiced today.

What's the question? and, perhaps, who's asking? Some of the aikido world is perhaps not ready for bits of this! I can probably find out the correct, complete title.

Thanks for the answer NBK!!! I haven been searching for this stuff very long! There must have been quite interesting instruction during ww2 in Japan. Toyama academy (sword,bayonet, dagger, jujutsu "combat judo")Nakano Academy (Yoshitaka from Shotokan with a rough and tumble version of Karate)The Kempeitai with the Aikijutsu stuff. ( i had the title of the manual written down. Because i moved to my wife after marriage i lost part of my papers) We have easy access to the us /british ww2 combatives books ala Fairbairn, Applegate, Cosneck, D-Eliscu, Hanley, Cahn or even WWI stuff from Smith, Raycroft and Marriott. But finding information about what was taught at Japan duringthe war seems very very difficult. I saw some japanese bayonet stuff (from The rigukun toyama academy) on ebay for much much money! But unarmed combat seems almost imposible to find something! Thank you very much for your answer!

Sometimes you just have to be lucky. i was able to get a very very rare almost impossible to get training manual from the Gung an forces. (national security service). Great stuff!! Looks like a broken down-version of jiu-jitsu (shuai jiao? /chin na skills?) for the street. Good easy takedonws, and arresting skills

Nice Greetings Florian

Paladin Press has come out with a german manual that is supposed to be the Nazi answer to the Fairbairn-Sykes methods, that is, enable to defeat them! I have not seen a copy as yet. Yes, there is a lot of interesting things that concern the Japanese arts and WWII. Of course, you know that the Kempetai established a great intelligence network all through Asia, including India and Indonesia and that they worked with Islamic groups, which indicates that the present day terrorists were set in motion by the Kempetai,and more can be said on this. It is not just 'Islamic'. Japan also showed the nations of the world that colonialism could be defeated,especially the British and Dutch. I ahve mentioned some of this in other topics in this forum,as have others, under the history. By the way, take a look at rare books on martial arts at the Hawaii Karate Musuem's website at http://musuem.hikari.us/ The entire collection is soon to be taken over and housed and maintained by the University of Hawaii. Halford

See http://judoforum.com/index.php?showtopic=21794 for a discussion of the techniques of the Japanese Imperial military

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Who are 'Gung an' ?

For information about the gung an check roveres training discription:

http://www.rovere.com/gung_an.html

Please don´t mix this up with the rovere books. He published books about the Wujing (military police) and the military use of hsing-i but NOT about the gung an training. He "just" trained with them.

The gung an book i have consists of 160 pages; the chapters include:

Basic stances

Defenses against fist attacks- conrolling techniques, takedowns and handcuffing techniques

Defenses against kicks, again controlling / takedowns (if necessary) and handcuffing / walking away applying holds...

Defenses against different kind of "bear-hugs" and full nelson then apply controlling techniques

How to arrest somebody (alone / with a 2 men team)

Defense against knife attacks

How to use the police club (striking / joint locking / choking techniques)

The whole book is very very practical. They use palm heel techniques to the face very very often (to shock /blind the attacker) then very easy but effective takedown are used. The joint locking techniques especially for hand cuffing lock like they could hurt much!!

So long. a little description of the manual.

The other manual i have is from the chinese marine corps. (282 pages)

OK, I got it. Thanks - interesting diversion.

I'll get you the correct title of the Tomiki Japanese Army Military Police aikibujustu manual sometime soon, can't put my hands on it just yet.

Cheers,

Thanks NBK!

By the way: I also have a scan of the most interesting (read effective) parts of the chinese Marine Corps h2h manual. (The manual also contains spezial conditioning training / fitness training / and other not combat related but interesting stuff)

Just contact me over the private message function!

Florian