![]() I hope Tanemura Soke’s other training manuals and writings will be made available via Amazon as well.The Bujinkan Organization, founded by Masaaki Hatsumi in 1978, is one of the many organizations claiming to teach ninjutsu as three of the nine martial art schools of Bujinkan are said to be ninjutsu schools. Overall, I am happy to see this book back in wider circulation, and would heartily recommend it to any and all interested readers. More a stylistic preference than anything. ![]() I’m a bit partial to the previous edition’s textured cover and cover text style. I hope future copies of this book will have uniformity in terms of photographic quality. This is why I have given this book a 4-star review. I don’t know whether this is due to Amazon MOD technical errors or media upload errors by the author/editor. Fuzzy photos: The copy I received has several pages worth of fuzzy photographs. Thanks to Amazon MOD, you can obtain a new copy at a reasonable price, regardless of your location. As well, ordering from Japan, with currency conversion rates and shipping costs, can be a tad pricey. Buying used copies can easily set you back hundreds of dollars. Instead of having to order this book from Japan, and waiting weeks or months for it to arrive, you can now receive a freshly printed copy from Amazon Media On Demand (my copy was printed in Middletown, DE), with as little wait time as possible. In some sections, this edition contains new, updated photographs. ![]() Through a cursory examination, this edition delivers the same great content of previous editions. ![]() Below are some of my initial impressions: Upon seeing that Ninpo Secrets would now be directly available via Amazon, I proceeded to obtain a newer copy for comparison to my previous edition. ![]() For those of us who have been blessed to train under Tanemura Soke’s oversight, this adds another layer of appreciation for his work. Where other authors at times are cryptic and unclear, Grandmaster Shoto Tanemura is refreshingly clear and understandable in his writing. No matter what books are in my Budo library, this is one I always come back to. As a practitioner of Ninpo, and as owner of a previous edition of Ninpo Secrets, I have always recommended this book to my students and fellow martial arts practitioners as THE one-stop, go-to source guide for information about Ninpo Bugei/Ninjutsu. ![]()
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