Egami Shigeru

Egami Shigeru

Egami Shigeru ( Japanese 江 上 茂 ; * December 7, 1912 in Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyūshū ; † January 8, 1981 in Tokyo ) was a karate fighter . He was the direct successor (and the oldest student) of Funakoshi Gichin , and also the founder of Shōtōkai ryū .

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Shigeru Egami trained as a young person Jūdō until he began to study karate with Master Funakoshi in 1932 . Since he was a child, Egami was a weak child, but through hard and rigorous karate training he became a very strong young man. He took great pride in his physical abilities and quickly got a reputation for being arrogant. He worked in many professions, but he wasn't really long in any of them. At that time his life was already karate training, with which he spent a lot of time. After the death of Funakoshi Yoshitaka he became a trainer and at that time one of the most important men of Shōtōkan ryū . Since he did not tolerate any deviation from the philosophical principles, the style split quickly and Nakayama Masatoshi and Hidetaka Nishiyama called today's JKA into being in order to distance themselves from Egami. Egami fell ill a short time later and had to undergo multiple stomach operations. In 1955 he developed his own karate style, the Shōtōkai ryū . Shortly before his death he wrote his book "The Heart of Karate-Do". Master Egami died of pneumonia in 1981 .

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The Shōtōkai ryū style is a soft style, but it is very physical due to its hard training.

Publications

• Egami Shigeru: The Heart of Karate-Do . Kōdansha International, Tōkyō 2000. ISBN 4-7700-2477-0

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• Werner Lind : Lexicon of the martial arts. China, Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, India, Mongolia, Philippines, Taiwan, etc. Sportverlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-328-00838-1 ( Edition BSK )

Web links

• Egami

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Egami surname, Shigeru 's first name.