Karate-Do: My Way of life - Hardcover

Funakoshi, Gichin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870112414 ISBN 13: 9780870112416

Publisher: Kodansha USA Inc, 1981

Synopsis

The father of Karate-do describes his life of devotion to the practices and spirit of the ancient martial art and his contributions to its modern-day evolution

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Japanese (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Kodansha USA Inc
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0870112414
• ISBN 13: 9780870112416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 127