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Frank Matsuyama scrapbooks, circa 1929-1948.
BANC MSS 2006/187local
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Title:
Frank Matsuyama scrapbooks, circa 1929-1948Creator/Contributor:
Matsuyama, Frank., creatorAbstract:
Contains letters referring to Yawara martial arts. Also includes photographs demostrating Yawara, of Frank Matsuyama and of
August Vollmer.
Date:
1929 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caVollmer, August -- 1876-1955 -- Portraits
Matsuyama, Frank -- Portraits
Martial arts -- California -- Berkeley
Martial arts -- Pictorial works
Note:
Frank Matsuyama was an instructor in martial arts known as Yawara. He brought this form from Japan in 1903. Matsuyama instructed
many police officers in the use of the Yawara stick that he invented in 1948.
In English.
Type:
Photographs.Scrapbooks.
Physical Description:
print
2 v.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 2006/187local