Training with Funakoshi

This book provides a synthesis of information about the famous Okinawan karate master, Gichin Funakoshi. Around the facts, Dr. Layton weaves a delightfully simple and unobtrusive story. Training with Funakoshi focuses on the period from 1922, just after the Master's now famous demonstration at the

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First National Athletic Exhibition in Tokyo, to his death in 1957. Funakoshi's efforts to establish the art on mainland Japan; the golden era of training in the Twenties and Thirties; the war years, and the difficulties thereafter, are all investigated. This book is not only a valuable reference work brimming with information, it also gently touches the very essence of the Way of Shoto itself.

Contents

Dedication
Foreword
About this book
Introduction
Early days
The war years
The way of shoto

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