📚 Karate

The empty hand: Okinawa’s arts, the Japanese systems, and how the way taught itself worldwide.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject karate in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Best karate	Masatoshi Nakayama	1977	14
	Fighting method	Bruce Lee	1976	9
	Karate	Hidetaka Nishiyama	1960	7
	Dynamic karate	Masatoshi Nakayama	1966	7
	Junior Karate	Russell Kozuki	1971	7
	Karate-Do Kyohan	Gichin Funakoshi	1974	7
	The karate dojo	Peter Urban	1967	6
	Jeet Kune Do	Dan Inosanto	1976	6
	Martial Arts	Peter Lewis	1988	6
	The Way of Karate	George E. Mattson	1963	5
	Shoto-kan karate	Peter Ventresca	1970	5
	Ed Parker's Infinite Insights into Kenpo	Ed Parker	1982	5
	The advanced Shotokan karate bible	Ashley Martin	2008	5
	Super Karate made easy	Moja Rone	1960	4
	Mas Oyama's karate as practiced in Japan	Bobby Lowe	1964	4
	Teach yourself karate	Eric Dominy	1967	4
	The legend of Bruce Lee	Alex Ben Block	1974	4
	The karate- Do Manual	P. M. V. Morris	1979	4
	Shotokan Karate	Joachim Grupp	2002	4
	Karate	Bruce Tegner	1959	3
	Karate's history and traditions	Bruce A. Haines	1968	3
	Shito-Ryu Karate	Fumio Demura	1971	3
	The wisdom of kung fu	Michael Minick	1974	3
	Hsing-I Kung-Fu	Tim Tackett	1975	3
	The Beginner's Guide to Shotokan Karate	John Van Weenen	1983	3
	Karate	Steve Arneil	1991	3
	Karate Training Guide	Randall G. Hassell	1991	3
	Karate Kata Applications	Aidan Trimble	1991	3
	Black belt karate	Jordan Roth	1992	3
	Karate and judo	Thomas J. Nardi	1996	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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