Hawai'i Karate Museum Rare Books
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Extensive list of books in the museum's collection, starting in the 1920s. Click on a decade and a chart will come up with all the books from that decade, with title and publishing info, and a illustrations of a few pages.
Turns out I have a connection to Hawaiian karate. In 1966, in my mid-teens, I was studying judo in Fairfield, Melbourne. One day we had a celebrity visitor, Tino Ceberano, who had recently moved to Australia from Hawaii. I was chosen to help him in a karate demonstration. My assistance consisted of standing stock still while he flicked my dangling judo belt with kicks from all directions. Later I discovered he was the father of the fine Australian singer, Kate Ceberano.
posted by oluckyman at 4:49 PM on January 26, 2018
posted by oluckyman at 4:49 PM on January 26, 2018
You had to go and spell "Hawaiʻi" with the ʻokina, didn't you! Mrs. Hobo grew up in Honolulu, and I got kind of obsessed with various Unicode forms of punctuation back when UTF-8 was only just hitting Linux systems about 15 years ago, so I've always gone to the trouble of digging it out and putting it in.
A friend of mine was working on a tiny publication and saw that I used the thing when spelling out "Hawaiʻi" and asked me to find out how...well, precious it was for a mainland Haole to use it in certain situations. It's the kind of thing that can be respectful, or can come across as affecting a localism for street cred. I'm reminded of an episode of This American Life where Ira Glass kind of laughed at the guy he was just before the famous Lynda Barry comics depict him, and one of the illustrations of how insufferable he thinks he was is the way he insisted on saying "Nicaragua" in the strongest imitation of local dialect possible.
Anyway, Mrs. Hobo kind of shrugged and said it just seemed really detail-oriented to her. My friend went without because official records of the US government don't use it (it's post-statehood!) and that was the context of the publication.
But back on topic, Mrs Hobo still regrets not fighting harder to stay in that karate class her mother took her to when she was little. It was apparently world-class and a lot of greats came out of it.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 11:16 AM on January 27, 2018
A friend of mine was working on a tiny publication and saw that I used the thing when spelling out "Hawaiʻi" and asked me to find out how...well, precious it was for a mainland Haole to use it in certain situations. It's the kind of thing that can be respectful, or can come across as affecting a localism for street cred. I'm reminded of an episode of This American Life where Ira Glass kind of laughed at the guy he was just before the famous Lynda Barry comics depict him, and one of the illustrations of how insufferable he thinks he was is the way he insisted on saying "Nicaragua" in the strongest imitation of local dialect possible.
Anyway, Mrs. Hobo kind of shrugged and said it just seemed really detail-oriented to her. My friend went without because official records of the US government don't use it (it's post-statehood!) and that was the context of the publication.
But back on topic, Mrs Hobo still regrets not fighting harder to stay in that karate class her mother took her to when she was little. It was apparently world-class and a lot of greats came out of it.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 11:16 AM on January 27, 2018
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