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Gichin Funakoshi. Gichin Funakoshi (船越 義珍, Funakoshi Gichin, November 10, 1868 – April 26, 1957)[1] was the founder of Shotokan karate. He is known as a "father of modern karate". [2] Following the teachings of Anko Itosu and Anko Asato, [3][4] he was one of the Okinawan karate masters who introduced karate to the Japanese mainland in ...
c. 1934–2021. USA. Kim Bok-man (Korean: 김복만; Hanja: 金福萬, [1] (3 December 1934 – 14 August 2021), Father of South East Asia Taekwon-Do was an early pioneer of taekwondo in the 1950s and 1960s in South East Asia, particularly Vietnam, Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Sarawak and Hong Kong.
The traditional Chinese martial arts school, or kwoon (館, guǎn) is an extended family headed by the Shifu. The Shifu's teacher is the "師公 honorable master" or Shigong. Similarly the Shifu's wife is the Shimu "teacher mother" and the grandmaster's wife is known as: 師姥 shi lao; or 師婆 shi po. Male and female students who began ...
Japan (188 medals) The Karate World Championships, also known as the World Karate Championships, are the highest level of competition for karate organized by the World Karate Federation (WKF). [1][2][3][4][5] The competition is held in a different city every two years. [6] Championships in the 2000s included Madrid in 2002, Monterrey in 2004 ...
Mitsusuke Harada, MBE (原田 満祐, Harada Mitsusuke, 16 November 1928 – 26 February 2021) was a prominent Japanese master of Shotokai karate who introduced this martial art to Brazil and was after based in the United Kingdom. [1]
Tatsuo Shimabuku was born in Gushikawa village, Okinawa on September 19, 1908. He was the first of ten children born into a farming family. He began his study of karate at the age of 13 from his uncle, who lived a few miles away from him in Agena Village. His uncle initially sent him back home, but after seeing how dedicated his nephew was he ...
Mas Oyama was born as Choi Yeong-eui (Korean: 최영의; Hanja: 崔永宜) in Kintei, Korea, Empire of Japan. At a young age, he was sent to Manchukuo to live on his sister's farm. Oyama began studying Chinese martial arts at age 9 from a Chinese farmer who was working on the farm. His family name was Lee and Oyama said he was his very first ...
Morio Higaonna (東恩納 盛男, Higaonna Morio, born December 25, 1938) is a world renowned Okinawan karate master who is the founder and Chief Instructor of the Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-do Federation (TOGKF 2022). [ 1 ][ 2 ] He also founded the International Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate-do Federation (IOGKF) .