Sorry, that was me as John, I hadn't realized that the computer was logged in under his name.
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Cool stuff Nathan, thanks for posting it.
I had never heard of Bobby Lowe until now.
I have seen some of this material in Oyama's book ("This is Karate" I think, not sure though) and some of it from other sources, websites. It fits in with much of what we do know.
Not sure about the Yanagi name reference. In the one I'd seen before Yanagi was not specifically mentioned, just Yoshida's "family art". Yanagi may have been added later after finding out about Don and whatnot. In most of the stuff I've found that Yoshida was known to have a family system but rarely spoke of it and never shared it with anyone, only Daito ryu.
Do you know if this book is available and where I could get a copy?
Richard Elias
Takamura-ha Shindo Yoshin ryu
Yanagi Ryu