1. Yasuhiro Konishi was one of the first karateka to teach karate on mainland Japan.
13 Facts About Yasuhiro Konishi
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Yasuhiro Konishi was instrumental in developing modern karate, as well as a driving force in the art's acceptance in Japan.
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Yasuhiro Konishi is credited with developing the style known as Shindo jinen-ryu.
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Yasuhiro Konishi was born in 1893 in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan.
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Yasuhiro Konishi quit his job in 1923 to open a martial arts center.
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Yasuhiro Konishi considered Motobu a martial arts genius and trained with him often.
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Yasuhiro Konishi trained less frequently with Miyagi but Miyagi presented him with a manuscript, "An Outline of Karate-Do", dated March 23,1934.
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Yasuhiro Konishi trained with Kenwa Mabuni, who resided at Yasuhiro Konishi's house for ten months in 1927 and 1928.
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Mabuni and Yasuhiro Konishi later worked together to develop the kata Seiryu.
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Yasuhiro Konishi demonstrated Heian Nidan to Ueshiba who opined that Yasuhiro Konishi should cease pursuing such ineffective techniques.
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Yasuhiro Konishi created a kata he named Tai Sabaki.
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Yasuhiro Konishi believed karate and Zen are different aspects of the same thing, and expressed that conviction in a short poem:.
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Yasuhiro Konishi was a successful businessman, teacher, and political activist, who strove to bring respectability to martial arts, and his efforts are a major reason that karate enjoys the position it does today.