Miyagi Chōjun
Miyagi Chōjun ( Japanese 宮城 長順 , born April 25, 1888 in Naha , Okinawa , † October 8, 1953 in Okinawa) is the founder of the Gōjū-Ryū - karate style.
Life
At the age of nine (or eleven; sources disagree) he began practicing karate . As a teenager he became a student of Higaonna Kanryo , after whose death he traveled to Fujian , China , as Higashionna Kanryo had already done. In China he trained the Shaolin and Pakua forms . Through this training and the experience in Miyagi's first trained system ( Naha-Te ), Miyagi's Gōjū-Ryū (German hard-soft style ) developed over time. Upon his return to Naha, Miyagi opened his own dojo .
Miyagi's ambitions were to spread karate. So he introduced karate in schools and other social institutions .
Works
- Karate-do gaisetsu . In: Patrick McCarthy (ed.): Ancient Okinawan martial arts. Koryu Uchinadi . Tuttle Publishing, Boston 1999, ISBN 0-8048-2093-7 (Japanese, en).
- Breathing in and breathing out in accordance with “Gō” and “Jū”. A miscellaneous essay on karate . In: Bunka Okinawa . Volume 3, No. 6 , 1942 (Japanese, online ( memento of March 31, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) - en).
- OLIVEIRA, Humberto Nuno de; LOPES, Eduardo Cunha. " Karate-Do por Chojun Miyagi " . (Complete writings). Bubok Editions (PT), 2015. 80 p. Illustrated (b & w). ISBN 978-84-686-6419-4
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| SURNAME | Miyagi, Chōjun |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 宮城 長順 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Founder of the Gōjū-Ryū karate style |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naha , Okinawa |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1953 |
| Place of death | on Okinawa |