1. Gichin Funakoshi was the founder of Shotokan karate.
18 Facts About Gichin Funakoshi
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Gichin Funakoshi is known as a "father of modern karate".
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Gichin Funakoshi taught karate at various Japanese universities and became honorary head of the Japan Karate Association upon its establishment in 1949.
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Gichin Funakoshi was born on November 10,1868, the year of the Meiji Restoration, in Shuri, Okinawa, to a Ryukyuan Pechin.
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Gichin Funakoshi was of samurai lineage, from a family which in former times had been vassals of Ryukyu Dynasty nobles.
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Gichin Funakoshi's family was stiffly opposed to the Meiji government's abolition of the Japanese topknot, and this meant that he would be ineligible to pursue his goal of attending medical school, despite having passed the entrance examination.
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Gichin Funakoshi had trained in both of the popular styles of Okinawan karate of the time: Shorei-ryu and Shorin-ryu.
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In 1930, Gichin Funakoshi established an association named Dai-Nihon Karate-do Kenkyukai to promote communication and information exchange among people who study karate-do.
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In 1936, Gichin Funakoshi built the first Shotokan dojo in Tokyo.
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Gichin Funakoshi argued in his autobiography that a philosophical evaluation of the use of "empty" seemed to fit as it implied a way which was not tethered to any other physical object.
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In 1949 Gichin Funakoshi's students created the Japan Karate Association, with Gichin Funakoshi as the honorary head of the organization.
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Gichin Funakoshi developed osteoarthritis in 1948, and died on April 26,1957.
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Gichin Funakoshi published several books on karate including his autobiography, Karate-Do: My Way of Life.
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Gichin Funakoshi's legacy rests in a document containing his philosophies of karate training now referred to as the niju kun, or "twenty principles".
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Funakoshi Gichin Sensei, of karate-do, was born on November 10,1868 in Shuri Okinawa.
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Gichin Funakoshi practiced diligently and in 1912 became the president of the Okinawan Shobukai.
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Gichin Funakoshi devoted his entire life to the development of karate-do.
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Gichin Funakoshi lived out his eighty-eight years of life and left this world on April 26,1957.