Budo Books

The short sword holds a unique and often underestimated place in the history of Japanese martial arts. While the Katana has long captured the imagination, the Shoto, Kodachi, and Wakizashi were equally essential weapons - versatile tools of strategy, survival, and symbolism.

Features:
Publisher: Kono Verlag | Owner Ralf Kruckemeyer
Author: Jürgen Bieber
Language: English
Publication date: December 19, 2025
Numerous illustrations and images
Paperback 166 Seiten
ISBN 9783910555365

Bujinkan Budô Densho – Kukishinden Ryû Rokushaku Bô.
This modern Densho is intended as a practical resource for daily training. The illustrations consist exclusively of drawings to emphasize the execution of the individual techniques and kata. Concise explanatory texts round out the information. In terms of content, the text outlines the most important movement forms with the Bô of the Kukishinden Ryû.

Features:
Publisher: Tengu Publishing Wolfgang Ettig
Author: Carsten Kühn
Language: German
Softcover: 200 pages
With 580 illustrations
Format: 16.5 x 23.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-924862-57-2

I am very pleased to offer you my first book, *The Sword of Clarity*, in the Bokken Shop. 

This book is not a guide to fighting techniques. It is an invitation to face life with renewed strength. 
We live in a world of constant availability, hesitation, and inner restlessness. We often feel like a leaf in the wind—unable to make that one, unshakable decision that changes everything. It leads us to where true strength arises: to our center, the hara. Its tool is the Japanese sword, but its goal is not external combat. The sword serves as an incorruptible mirror of your soul. It exposes excuses, severs old patterns, and challenges you to be fully present in the here and now.

Characteristics:
Publisher: Books on Demand; July 13, 2026
Author: Ulrich Horender
Language: German
Paperback: 292 pages
ISBN-13: 9783696306045

Initiatic sword work - Count von Dürckheim.
Book: Günther Maag-Röckemann: Take the sword in hand.

A wonderful book about the sword practice path written by Günther Maag-Röckemann.
Please note: The book is only available in German.

Characteristics:
Publisher: Books on Demand; 1st edition (October 16, 2017)
Language: German
Paperback: 64 pages
ISBN-10: 3848230275

I would like to thank Reinhold Dietrich for giving me the opportunity to offer his book "The Path of the Great" to you in my Bokken shop.

Please note: The book is only available in German.

Characteristics:
Publisher: Verlag Dietrich
Language: German
Softcover: 85 pages
ISBN: 978-3-9500425-9-7

Waldefried Pechtl († 2001) conveys deeply moving things in his book: The way of appreciation his knowledge in poetic form.

Please note: The book is only available in German.

Characteristics:
Author: Waldefried Pechtl
Publisher: Verlag Dietrich
Language: German
Softcover: 300 pages
ISBN: 978-3-902172-01-3

We are pleased to be able to offer you this unique book by Reinhold Dietrich: Karate-Do - The Heart of Karate, in our Bokken-Shop. The author Reinhold Dietrich shows that the liberation of the heart energy is the core of personality development and every path - including that of Shotokan Karate-Do.

Please note: The book is only available in German.

Characteristics:
Publisher: Verlag Dietrich
New edition
1st edition 2014
Language: German
Hardcover: 173 pages glued
ISBN: 978-3-902172-26-6