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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

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Sports & outdoor recreation Combat sports & self-defence

• Full title: Karate-do: My Way Of Life
• Author: Gichin Funakoshi
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9781568364988
• ISBN: 1568364989
• ID: 02197618
• Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
• Weight: 146 g
• Dimensions: 148 × 182 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2013

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