funakoshi in A Sentence

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    Funakoshi also gave Japanese names to many of the kata.

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    Funakoshi had trained in both of the popular styles of Okinawan karate of the time: Shōrei-ryū and Shōrin-ryū.

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    His students became some of the most well-known karate masters, including Gichin Funakoshi, Kenwa Mabuni, and Motobu Chōki.

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    Gichin Funakoshi, founder of Shotokan karate, is generally credited with having introduced and popularized karate on the main islands of Japan.

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    The founder of Shotokan karate, Gichin Funakoshi, is generally credited with having introduced and popularised karate on the main islands of Japan.

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    Tsutomu Ohshima(1930-) began practicing karate at the Waseda University club in 1948, receiving instruction from Funakoshi and Egami among others, and became captain of the club in 1952.

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    Japan was invading China at the time, and Funakoshi knew that the art of Tang/China hand would not be accepted; thus the change of the art's name to"way of the empty hand.

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    Funakoshi changed the names of many kata and the name of the art itself(at least on mainland Japan), doing so to get karate accepted by the Japanese budō organization Dai Nippon Butoku Kai.

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    Funakoshi changed the names of many kata and the name of the art itself(at least on mainland Japan), doing so to get karate accepted by the Japanese budō organisation Dai Nippon Butoku Kai.

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