ChÅjun Miyagi
Miyagi Chojun (Japanese宫城 长顺, born April 25, 1888 in Naha, Okinawa, † October 8, 1953 in Okinawa ) is the founder of Goju - Ryu Karate style.
Life
At the age of nine ( or eleven, where the sources do not agree ), he began training in Karate. As a teenager he became a student of Higaonna Kanryo, after whose death he traveled to Fujian in China, as it had already done Kanryo Higashionna. In China, he coached the Shaolin and the Pakua form. Through this training and experience in Miyagi -trained first system ( Naha - Te) was created with the time Miyagi's Goju - Ryu (English hard-soft style). After his return to Naha Miyagi opened his own dojo.
Works
- Karate - dō gaisetsu. In: Patrick McCarthy ( ed.): Ancient Okinawan martial arts. Koryu Uchinadi. Tuttle Publishing, Boston 1999, ISBN 0804820937 (s).
- Breathing in and breathing out in accor dance with " Gō " and " Jū ". A miscellaneous Essay on Karate. In: Bunka Okinawa. Volume 3, No. 6, 1942 ( s, Internet Archive ).
- Man
- Japanese
- Karateka (Japan)
- Born in 1888
- Died in 1953