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Master Gichin Funakoshi, not only a genius in martial arts but also a literary talent. Founder of Modern Karate.

Master Gichin Funakoshi . Founder of Modern Karate - Do

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Funakoshi Sensei was not only a genius in martial arts but also a literary talent and signed his work "Shoto," his pen name. Hence, the school where he taught came to be known as Shoto's school or Shotokan. He combined the techniques and katas of the two major Okinawan styles to form his own style of karate. As a result, modern day Shotokan includes the powerful techniques of the Shorei school and the lighter, more flexible movements of the Shorin school.

G. Funakoshi, 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. He grew so proficient that he was initiated into all the major styles of karate in Okinawa at the time, known as the founder of modern karate, was a professor at the Okinawan Teacher's College and president of the Okinawan Association of Martial Arts. In 1922, he was invited to lecture and demonstrate the new art of karate at the First National Athletic Exhibition in Tokyo. The demonstration turned out to be a great success, due to the inspiring personality of Master Funakoshi, and he was flooded with requests until he was able to establish the Shotokan in 1936, a great landmark in the history of karate.

When the Japan Karate Association was established in 1949, G. Funakoshi was appointed as the chief instructor due to his advanced skills and leadership capabilities. Master Funakoshi died in 1957 at the age of 88 after training and teaching karate for more than 75 years !.

Although Funakoshi Sensei was famous as a great karate master, he always emphasized that the most important benefit from karate training is the development of spiritual values and the perfection of character of its participants...

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Master Gichin Funakoshi’s MAXIMS FOR THE TRAINEE

Karate-Do Kyohan’s excerpts

A word 'bu' comes from budo (martial art*) is written with the Chinese character for 'stop', meaning to stop conflict [ within a character signifying two crossed halberds ] Since karate is a budo, this meaning should considered deeply, and the fists should not be used heedlessly. Kara-te means “empty hand”.

Thus, if Karate-Do is followed correctly, it will polish the character, and uphold justice, but if used for evil purposes, corrupt society and be contrary to humanity.

Youth is justice and vigor and it is stimulated by bu*, overflowing good or sometimes bad actions. Force is used as a last resort, where humanity and justice can’t prevail, but if the fist is used freely without consideration, the user will lose respect of others and treated shabbily, being censured as a barbaric action. At any rate, the high-spirited youth in the prime of life and is prone to rash speech and action, so prudence is essential.

We must have dignity without ferocity, bringing to this height. Do not act recklessly to any purpose and do not cause trouble for others. Masters and saints may appear real simple people. Those who are pretentious declare to the world that they are just novice scholars or beginner martial artists.

We are not fit to be considered as serious trainees in the martial arts, if you think that you have learned everything, you will become conceited braggarts proclaiming your own merits after learning the movements of some kata and acquiring dexterity in the physical movements.

It is an oriental said that even a worm that is an inch long has a soul half an inch long; thus as one continues to gain skill in karate, one must become more careful with one's speech. To stand still is to regress.

Again, it is said that ’the higher the tree, the stronger the wind’, but does not even the willow manage to withstand the wind? Similarly the trainee of Karate-Do must consider good behavior and humbleness as the highest of virtues.

Mencius said, "When Heaven is about to confer an important office upon a man, it first embitters his heart in its purpose; it causes him to exert his bones and sinews; it makes his body suffer hunger; it inflicts upon him want and poverty and confounds his undertakings. In this way it stimulates his will, steels his nature and thus makes him capable of accomplishing what he would otherwise be incapable of accomplishing."

No matter how base the opponent may be, I will not be afraid. If introspection reveals the self to be unjust or become just, then I will go even though against a thousand or ten thousand men

. You should be gentle and never be menacing; near yet never forward; slay but never humiliate; no sign of indecency is found in his abode; his nourishment is never heavy; even a minor mistake is corrected but there is no accusation. Thus is his strength of will.

You must be broad-minded and strong willed. The responsibilities will be heavy, and the way is long. Make benevolence your lifelong duty. This surely is an important mission. It is a lifelong effort, truly a long journey

. A truly great man is not disturbed even when suddenly confronted with an unexpected event or crisis, nor angered upon finding himself in situations not of his own making, and this is because he has a great heart and his aim is high.An ordinary man will draw his sword when ridiculed and will fight risking his life, but he may not be called a courageous man.

A truly great man is not disturbed even when suddenly confronted with an unexpected event or crisis.
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[ EIGHT IMPORTANT PHRASES OF KARATE ]

The mind is the same within heaven and earth.

The circulatory rhythm of the body is similar to the sun and the moon.

The Law includes hardness and softness.

Act in accordance with time and change.

Techniques will occur when a void is found.

The 'Mai' requires advancing and retreating, separating and meeting.

The eyes do not miss even the slightest change.

The ears listen well in all directions.

Therefore: Learn from the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.

If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.

When wild beasts are about to attack, they crouch low with their ears close to their heads. When birds of prey are attacking, they fly in low without extending their wings. Similarly, when a sage is about to act, he always appears slightly dull.

A stone with no water within it is hard. A natural magnet with no water within it is dense. If a body is hard within and dense without, how can it ever be penetrated?. If a thing has an opening, then it will be filled. If a thing has an inch of cavity, then one inch of water will fill it. Lin Hung-nien's teachings.


Gichin funakoshi's pen name, "shoto", literally means "pine waves", and today is synonymous with the tiger symbol and Shotokan Karate-Do, but few people understand the relationship of shoto to what is commonly called the "shotokan tiger". When Gichin Funakoshi was a young man, he enjoyed walking in solitude among the pine trees which surrounded his home town of Shuri. After a hard day of teaching in the local school and several more hours of strenuous karate practice, he would often walk up Mt.Torao and meditate among the pine trees under the stars and bright moon. Mt. Torao is a very narrow, heavily wooded mountain which, when viewed from a distance, resembles a tigers tail. The name "Torao", in fact, literally means 'tigers tail'.

Later, Funakoshi explained that the cool breezes which blew among the pines on mountain Torao made the trees whisper like waves breaking the shore, thus, since he gained his greatest poetic inspirations while walking among the gently blowing pine trees, he chose the pen name of Shoto, "pine waves". The tiger which is commonly used as the symbol for Shotokan Karate is a traditional chinese design which implies that 'the tiger never sleeps'. Symbolized in the Shotokan Tiger therefore, is the keen alertness of the wakeful tiger and the serenity of the peaceful mind which Gichin Funakoshi experienced while listening to the pine waves on Tiger's Tail mountain.

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