The Bubishi Code – The Hidden Teaching of Okinawan Karate
Understanding Karate rather than merely performing it.
The Bubishi Code opens an entirely new perspective on the most famous classical text of Okinawan Karate. Far removed from myth or later esoteric overlays, the author reveals the underlying structure, logic, and systemic coherence of the Bubishi — an ancient Daoist worldview in which martial art, healing art, ethics, energy cultivation, and observation of nature form an inseparable unity.
This work draws on decades of practice in Karate, Kyusho, Kobudo, and Jujutsu, combined with extensive medical expertise and deep familiarity with traditional East Asian systems. The result is not a technical manual, but an analytical decoding of the structural key that links all chapters of the Bubishi across dimensions of time, space, number, and symbolism.
The classical Chinese source text of a purported original Bubishi manuscript was translated and analysed step by step with the assistance of language-based AI. Through this process, the comprehensive underlying matrix of the Bubishi code is presented here for the first time. The reader discovers how the Twelve Earthly Branches, the Ten Heavenly Stems, the Thirty-Six Energy Fields, the Bronze Man, the Six Hands, the Forty-Eight Combinations, and the Thirty-Two Positions function together as a single, closed strategic system.
Blending historical research, medical insight, Daoist philosophy, and lifelong martial experience, the book shows that the Bubishi encompasses both combat knowledge and its ethical–strategic framing — yet this study focuses above all on its role as a guide to self-cultivation, responsible use of force, and the inner processes of decision within conflict.
For practitioners who seek to understand Karate beyond technique — and for readers who wish to encounter the cultural, strategic, and energetic foundations of the Bubishi as an integrated whole for the first time.