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Ginchin Funakoshi was the founding father of the principles and techniques of karate in Japan. This is the original text of Master Funakoshi's first exposition of Okinawan karate. The text elucidates his teaching and training methods, while the photographs show Funakoshi demonstrating kata.
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Gichin Funakoshi (1868-1957) is known throughout the world as one of karate's great masters. Born in Okinawa, he began training in karate as a child. Also educated in the Confucian classics, he became a schoolteacher early in life. In 1922, he demonstrated the then-secret Okinawan art on the Japanese mainland, which led to karate's introduction to the rest of Japan and subsequently the rest of the world. Funakoshi devoted the remainder of his life to this traditional sport and wrote several classics on the subject, including Karate-do Kyohan and an autobiography entitled Karate-do: My Way of LifeJohn Teramoto, the translator, was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. After beginning karate training in 1963, he reached the rank of godan in 1990. Since 1998, he has served as the president of the Black Belt Council of the Shotokan Karate of America. Teramoto received a Ph. D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in Japanese Art History in 1994 and is currently an Associate Curator of Asian Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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"If one were to open up a map of Japan, in its southernmost reaches one would spy a long and narrow strand of islands floating like a rope upon the sea." Read the first page
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