Kenji Tokitsu
is a Japanese author and practitioner of Japanese martial arts. Tokitsu has also written a scholarly work about the legendary swordsman Musashi Miyamoto. He holds doctorates in sociology and in Japanese language and civilization.

Biography
Kenji Tokitsu was born on 1 August 1947 in Yamaguchi, Japan. A practitioner of Shotokan karate since youth, in 1984 Tokitsu started his own school, the Shaolin-mon ("door to Shaolin", compare the Mumonkan) school in Paris, where he had taught Shotokan karate since 1971. The Shaolin-mon teachings were a hybrid of Tokitsu's dissatisfaction with Shotokan karate combined with what he learned of Chinese martial arts. Still later, he founded the Tokitsu-ryu Academy in 2001.

He was interviewed for his thoughts on Japanese culture in Chris Marker's 1996 documentary film Level Five.

Books
Tokitsu, Kenji, The Inner Art of Karate: Cultivating the Budo Spirit in Your Practice, trans. 2012, 
–––––, Ki and the Way of the Martial Arts, trans. 2003, 
–––––, Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings, trans. 2004 by Sherab Chödzin Kohn (from the French Miyamoto Musashi, 2000), Boston: Shambhala,  (1st ed., hbk)

References
Shambhala, Biographical article and bibliography at Shambhala Publications
Tokitsu, , www.tokitsu.com
Tokitsu, , www.tokitsu.com
Tokitsu, , www.tokitsu.com

Notes

External links
 www.tokitsuryu.it (new official website)
 YouTube video of Kenji

1947 births
Living people
Japanese writers
Martial arts writers