Product details

Format:

Paperback

Language of text:

English

Isbn-13:

9781568364988, 978-1568364988

Author:

Gichin Funakoshi

Publisher:

Kodansha America, Inc

Imprint:

Kodansha America, Inc

Publication date:

2013-02-01

Pages:

144

Product dimensions:

114mm (w) x 183mm (h) x 10mm (d)

Overview

Linking the time when karate was a strictly Okinawan art of self-defense shrouded in the deepest secrecy and the present day, when it has become a martial art practiced throughout the world, is Gichin Funakoshi, the 'Father of Karate-do.'
Out of modesty, he was reluctant to write this autobiography and did not do so until he was nearly ninety years of age. Trained in the Confucian classics, he was a schoolteacher early in life, but after decades of study under the foremost masters, he gave up his livelihood to devote the rest of his life to the propagation of

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