Karate-Do: My Way of Life
My Way of Life
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- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2017
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781568364988 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1568364989 |
| Author: | Gichin Funakoshi |
| Publisher: | Kodansha America, Inc |
| Imprint: | Kodansha America, Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 234mm x 174mm |
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About The Author
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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