Funakoshi Gichin - Karate - Do: My Way Of Life - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Linking the time when karate was a strictly Okinawan art of self - defense shrouded in the deepest secrecy and the present day when it has become a martial art practiced throughout the world is Gichin Funakoshi the Father of Karate - do. Out of modesty he was reluctant to write this autobiography and did not do so until he was nearly ninety years of age. Trained in the Confucian classics he was a schoolteacher early in life but after decades of study under the foremost masters he gave up his livelihood to devote the rest of his life to the propagation of'
Title: Karate - Do: My Way Of Life
Author(s): Funakoshi Gichin
Publisher: Kodansha America Inc
Barcode: 9781568364988
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 2/1/2013
Category: Oriental Martial Arts