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Karate-Do: My Way of Life

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By (author): Gichin Funakoshi

Linking the time when karate was a strictly Okinawan art of self-defense shrouded in the deepest secrecy and the present day, when it has become a martial art practiced throughout the world, is Gichin Funakoshi, the Father of Karate-do.' Out of modesty, he was reluctant to write this autobiography and did not do so until he was nearly ninety years of age. Trained in the Confucian classics, he was a schoolteacher early in life, but after decades of study under the foremost masters, he gave up his livelihood to devote the rest of his life to the propagation of' See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 135g
  • Dimensions: 110 x 182mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Feb 2013
  • Publisher: Kodansha America Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781568364988

About Gichin Funakoshi

GICHIN FUNAKOSHI is world famous as one of Karate's great masters. Born in Shuri Okinawa Prefecture in 1868 he studied Karate-do from childhood and organized the first public demonstrations.He was trained in the Confucian classics and was a schoolteacher early in life. After training for decades under the foremost masters in Okinawa he was elected president of the Okinawa Association for the Spirit of Martial Arts.He was chosen to demonstrate Karate at the First National Athletic Exhibition in Tokyo in 1922 which led to the introduction of the ancient martial art to the rest of Japan and subsequently to the rest of the world. Among his writings are Karate-do Nyumon: The Master Introductory Text Karate-do Kyohan: The Master Text and Karate Jutsu: The Original Teachings of Gichin Funakoshi.Master Gichin Funakoshi died in April 1957.

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