[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Karate"

[Peter Morris]

The Crown Prince's European Tour - 1926
Yoshinori Futara, ?Setsuzo Sawada -
Page 19

... exercises of the students of the middle schools who exhibited the art of 
self protection kuown as Karate, resembling boxing. ...

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