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	Gichin Funakoshi - Founder of Shotokan Karate
		Gichin Funakoshi was born in Shuri, Okinawa in 1868.
		This memorial to Master Funakoshi was erected at Enkaku-ji Temple in Kamakura in 1968.
		Funakoshi heard about these bouts and, when he could not discourage such attempts at what he consedered belittling to the art of karate, he stopped coming to the Shichi-Tokudo.
	www.gichinfunakoshi.com /gichin.htm (1357 words)

	Gichin Funakoshi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gichin Funakoshi (船越義珍 Funakoshi Gichin, 1868–1957) was an Okinawan karate master who 'formally' introduced karate to the Japanese mainland in 1921.
		One of Funakoshi's greatest students was Masutatsu Oyama, creator of Kyokushin Karate.
		In 1936 Funakoshi established Shotokan in Tokyo and this eventually led to the inauguration of the Japan Karate Association (JKA) in 1955 with Funakoshi as the chief instructor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gichin_Funakoshi (218 words)

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		Gichin Funakoshi, often referred to as the “father of modern karate,” was born in Shuri, Okinawa in 1868 to the privileged Shizoku class.
		Funakoshi’s father was an alcoholic and, while he had been fortunate enough to have been left with social position and a significant inheritance, he disgraced his family and squandered it away on alcohol before the family had had an opportunity to benefit from it.
		Funakoshi approached karate from a philosophical and intellectual view-point which appealed to the more educated and socially prominent members of their society; he put tremendous emphasis on the mental discipline and the physical benefits of the art.
	www.renbukan.org /funakoshi (1086 words)

	Gichin Funakoshi, the founder of modern karate-do
		Funakoshi agreed with the obvious historical allusion in the "Chinese hands" characters, but he felt that the use of "empty hands" not only emphasized the art of self-defense without weapons, but also characterized the sense of emptying one's heart and mind of earthly desires and vanity.
		Funakoshi is credited with standardizing the writing of karate, a feat which, though angering several martial arts masters at the time, met with eventual universal approval.
		Funakoshi also stressed the importance of toughening each part of the body until it was as hard as iron.
	www.fightingmaster.com /masters/funakoshi (2679 words)

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		Gichin Funakoshi was born in Shuri, the capital of Okinawa, in 1868.
		Funakoshi expounded 20 precepts as etiquette for karate and the dojo.
		Funakoshi attempted to pass all this on to his students in addition to the art of Shotokan Karate.
	home.gwu.edu /~katsy20/gichinfunakoshi.htm (581 words)

	Gichin Funakoshi
		Gichin Funakoshi was an Okinawan (Shuri-te) Karate master and innovator.
		Gichin Funakoshi laid out six principles that had to be followed to achieve the full understanding of Karate-Do.
		Gichin Funakoshi continually edited, revised and updated the various kicks, punches, strikes, blocks and body dynamics until the day he died in 1957.
	www.aibudo.com /history/shotokan/gichin.html (2366 words)

	Karate Styles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to Funakoshi "The art of karate strives neither for victory, nor for defeat, but for the perfection of the character of its practitioners." Shotokan is a "hard" linear style that is a true "empty hand" art, it does not include weapons training.
		Gichin Funakoshi held only two positions during his lifetime: one as head instructor of the Shotokan Dojo and the other as director of the Shotokai school.
		After Master Gichin Funakoshi's death in 1957, Shotokai was heir of his symbol (O-sensei's tiger), the Shotokan and Shotokai names, and more importantly, all his documents and writings, which is why Shotokai is in charge of editing and publishing his works.
	tkdtutor.com /02Taekwondo/Styles/Karate.htm (3098 words)

	FightingArts.com - Gichen Funakoshi And The Beginning Of Modern Karate-do
		Funakoshi no doubt saw an opportunity to pick up the torch and carry it to the mainland (Japan proper) himself when in 1917 he was invited to Kyoto by the Dai Nippon Butokukai (The Great Martial Virtues Association of Japan) to participate in a martial arts festival.
		Shimoda was Funakoshi's most talented student (12) (a fact referred to by Shigeru Egami, a senior student of Funakoshi), but during the course of traveling and demonstrating, he became ill and died rather abruptly ending what would have been a most promising future.
		Funakoshi, who had not seen his wife in twenty three years, went to be with her in southern Japan (Kyushu) where she had fled during the fighting in Okinawa.
	www.fightingarts.com /reading/article.php?id=135 (2616 words)

	Scuola Shotokai Italia :: Karate Do Shotokai
		allievo diretto di Gichin Funakoshi Sensei, il padre del Karate moderno.
		tradizionale giapponese creato da Shigeru Egami Sensei, allievo diretto di Gichin Funakoshi Sensei.
		Yoshitaka Funakoshi, figlio di Gichin Funakoshi ispirò il lavoro di Shigeru Egami.
	www.shotokai.net (336 words)

	Gichin Funakoshi
		Master Gichin Funakoshi is undoubtedly the father of modern karate and can be credited with placing karate in the position it enjoys on the Japanese mainland today, it is Gichin Funakoshi.
		Gichin Funakoshi was a teacher (and also a poet) who wrote under the pen name "Shoto", meaning "whispering pines" and "Kan" means "the way".
		Funakoshi Gichin is, without a doubt, the father of Shotokan and the driving force which brought karate into the Japanese educational system.
	www.sendai.org.uk /funakoshi.htm (1328 words)

	Master Funakoshi's Karate, Part I, by Graham Noble
		Gichin Funakoshi was more forward-looking than most of his fellow Okinawans, and he was involved in many of the new developments, but I can't help feeling that sometimes things went a little too fast for him.
		Gichin Funakoshi was 80 years old by this time, and of course he could take little active role in the revival.
		Funakoshi once told Yasukiyo Takeda that he was concerned at how some of his students were rushing their practice and taking gradings too quickly.
	seinenkai.com /articles/noble/noble-funakoshi1.html (4114 words)

	Gichin Funakoshi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gichin Funakosi was born in Shuri, Okinawa in 1868.
		Gichin Funakoshi passed away in 1957 at the age of 88.
		This memorial to Master Funakoshi was erected at Enkaku-ji Temple in Kamakura in 1968.
	www.shotokanforeveryone.com /gichin.htm (259 words)

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		Funakoshi was born the son of a samurai in (3rd year of Meiji), in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture.
		Born in 1870, he began to study karate at the age of 11, and was a student of the two greatest masters of the time, Azato and Itosu.
		For Master Funakoshi, the word karate eventually took on a deeper and broader meaning through the synthesis of these many methods, becoming karate-do, literally the "way of karate," or of the empty hand.
	www.ksksydney.homestead.com /files/Funakoshi.htm (537 words)

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		Gichin Funakoshi is considered the father of modern karate-do.
		Funakoshi was born in the Okinawan capital of Shuri into a family of the Shizoku class (upper class).
		Master Gichin Funakoshi was instructed by Yasutsune Azato and Yasutsune Itosu and was the founder of Shotokan Karate.
	members.aol.com /sherwaykarate/GichinFunakoshi.htm (250 words)

	Shotokan Karate of America (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gichin Funakoshi is widely considered the primary "father" of modern karate due to his efforts to introduce the Okinawan art to mainland Japan, from where it spread to the rest of the world.
		Born in 1868, he began to study karate at the age of 11, and was a student of the two greatest masters of the time, Azato and Itosu.
		In the early spring of 1922 Master Funakoshi traveled to Tokyo to present his art at the First National Athletic Exhibition in Tokyo organized by the Ministry of Education.
	www.ska.org /index.php?p=4 (285 words)

	Gichin Funakoshi, More than a Great Master
		Funakoshi was born at the beginning of the Meiji Period (1868), a period of considerable change throughout Japan.
		Funakoshi recalls that this was the first time that karate was introduced to the general public.
		Funakoshi felt the pull of Japan and found a nation fertile with eagerness for a martial art with the depth of challenge that karate-do represented.
	www.iskf.com /spotlight/b_green.htm (2402 words)

	funakoshi
		Gichin Funakoshi was born on November 10, 1868 to the wife of a minor government official in Shuri, Okinawa.
		At primary school, Funakoshi became friends with the son of one of Okinawa's greatest experts in Karate, Yasutsune Azato, and through his friendship with the master's son Funakoshi was introduced to the art of Shurite.
		Funakoshi was extensively sought after as an instructor and found himself permanently relocating to mainland Japan to pursue instruction of karate to the Japanese people.
	oldweb.uwp.edu /academic/hpea/class/karate/funakoshi.html (6096 words)

	Early karate origins (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gichin Funakoshi was born in Okinawa in 1868, the same year as Japan's Meiji Restoration.
		Master Gichin Funakoshi, one of karate’s pioneers in its introduction to Japan, was born in Shuri, Okinawa in the Fall of 1868, and it is he who would have the greatest influence on the development of karate in the Twentieth Century.
		Master Funakoshi was invited as the representative of the Okinawan Prefecture to demonstrate at the Butokuden (the official center of all martial arts in Japan) in 1916 and in Kyoto, Japan in 1917, but there was little more than passing interest at these displays.
	www.msstate.edu /org/shotokan/karate2hx.htm (1533 words)

	JCS: Mitsusuke Harada:deClaire
		Yoshitaka was Gichin Funakoshi’s third son, and he had taken over as Chief Instructor the Shotokan and first assistant to his father after the sudden death of Takeshi Shimoda in 1934.
		Funakoshi, who was living with his eldest son Yoshihide in Tokyo’s Koishikawa district, replied to Harada welcoming him to train at his son’s house on a private basis.
		At this time, Funakoshi was trying to reverse the decline in the level of technique and spiritual void that had become dominant as a result of the war.
	ejmas.com /jcs/jcsart_declaire_0402.htm (4624 words)

	Gichin Funakoshi \| Shotokan Karate Club of DIT Kevin Street, Dublin, Ireland
		Gichin Funakoshi was born in Shuri, Okinawa in 1868.
		Funakoshi heard about these bouts and, when he could not discourage such attempts at what he consedered belittling to the art of karate, he stopped coming to the Shichi-Tokudo.
		NOTE Funakoshi sincerely believed it would take a lifetime to master a handful of kata and that sixteen would be enough.
	clubsoc.dit.ie /karate/gichin.html (1352 words)

	Gichin Funakoshi Sensei Informal Biography
		Gichin Funakoshi's story is very similar to that of many great in Karate.
		Master Gichin Funakoshi recounts this part in a different way, while living with his grandparents he started attending primary school where he was classmate of Azato's son and received his first Karate instruction from Yasutsune (Ankoh) Azato.
		Gichin Funakoshi was a humble man. He preached and practiced an essential humility.
	www.shotokai.com /ingles/bios/funakos2.html (1439 words)

	Karate BC - History of Karate
		Gichin Funakoshi goes further to suggest that these two styles were developed based on different physical requirements Funakoshi, 1935).
		In 1922, Dr. Jano Kano, founder of the Japanese art of Judo, invited Funakoshi to demonstrate at the famous Kodokan Dojo and to remain in Japan to teach karate.
		Funakoshi is considered to be the founder of modern karate.
	www.karatebc.org /history (1372 words)

	Lang Park JKA Dojo: SHOTOKAN HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the late 1800s, Gichin Funakoshi, and honored Okinawa school teacher and poet, fused Tote styles learned from two masters of that time, masters Azato and Itosu.
		When the martial arts were finally taught openly, Master Funakoshi traveled to Japan to demonstrate what he later called Karate-do, the way of the empty hand, before a Ministry of Education exhibition in 1922.
		As a result of 3 years of strategic planning and countless mock matches under the provocation and direction of Master Funakoshi's student Masatoshi Nakayama, the first official JKA All-Japan Karate Tournament took place at Tokyo's Metropolitan Gymnasium and was open to the public.
	www.jkalangpark.com /misc/history.htm (779 words)

	Master Gichin Funakoshi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Master Gichin Funakoshi is widely considered the primary "father" of modern karate due to his efforts to introduce the Okinawan art to mainland Japan, from where it spread to the rest of the world.
		Born in 1868, he began to study karate at the age of 11, and was a student of the two greatest masters of the time, Azato and Itosu (see also history).
		When Master Funakoshi was a young man, he enjoyed walking in solitude among the pine trees which surrounded his home of Shuri.
	www.fortunecity.com /olympia/baylor/285/funakoshi.html (697 words)

	Gichin Funakoshi And The Beginning Of Modern Karatedo. Shitokai.com
		Funakoshi become exceedingly close to his teachers (3), yet despite this closeness, he also went on to receive instruction from other well known teachers, including Higaonna of Naha, Master Niigaki, Kiyuna Peichin (a top student of Sokon Matsumura) and occasionally Matsumura himself (4), who was Itosu's teacher.
		This account would seem to put to rest the speculation by some karate historians that Funakoshi learned the Pinan Kata from Kenwa Mabuni (the founder of Shito Ryu Karate who had studied with Itosu) in 1919 or 1920.
		Gichin Funakoshi passed away on April, 1957 always clutching the torch.
	www.shitokai.com /funakoshi-2.php (2137 words)

	Amazon.com: Karate-Do: My Way of Life: Books: Gichin Funakoshi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Funakoshi writes about his masters and the differences between karate then and now.
		Funakoshi states time and again the artist does not use his art to harm and he feels that it is true failure to lower oneself to the use of violence.
		Funakoshi clearly decided not to focus on the minute details of his life but instead highlighted his life's journey through the martial arts.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0870114638?v=glance (1403 words)

	Karate Masters, History.
		Gichin Funakoshi (1886-1957), Moden Yabiku (1880-1941), Kanken Toyama (1888-1966),Chotoku Kyan (1870-1945), Shinpan Shiroma (1890-1954), Anbun Tokuda (1886-1945) and Kenwa Mabuni (1887-1952).
		By this time, Mabuni had become a highly respected police officer and made several trips to Japan after Gichin Funakoshi introduced "Karate" in Japan in 1922, Finally he moved to Osaka, Japan in 1928 and started to teach Karate.
		Wado-Ryu founder, was a student of Gichin Funakoshi, shotokan.
	www.lawrencetown.com /masters.htm (5495 words)

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