Sensei hiroshi oshima biography
Japan Karate Association
Shotokan karate organization
The Japan Karate Association (日本 空手 協会; Nihon Karate Kyokai; JKA; sometimes referred to simply as Kyokai 協会 in Japan) is one of the oldest global Shotokankarate organizations in the world.
Origins
Gichin Funakoshi played a major role in introducing karate from Okinawa to Japan, adjusted to reduce injury and merged with approaches for athletic training. On May 27, 1949, some of his senior students including Isao Obata, Masatoshi Nakayama, and Hidetaka Nishiyama, formed a karate organization dedicated to research, promotion, events management, and education: the Japan Karate Association. Funakoshi, then around 80 years old, held a position equivalent to chief instructor emeritus, with Nakayama as the chief instructor.
The JKA emerged from karate clubs at Japanese universities located in the Tokyo region. Most of these universities, however, distanced themselves from the JKA during the 1950s. Takushoku University always kept strong ties with the JKA, being the alma mater of many of the senior JKA instructors, such as Nakayama, Nishiyama, Okazaki, Asai, Kanazawa, and Enoeda, who were responsible for the JKA's consolidation during the 1960s and 1970s.
General uneasiness on how karate was taught by the JKA instructors and disagreements on Funakoshi's funeral arrangements in 1957 motivated some of the senior karateka connected with Funakoshi, but not associated with the JKA, such as Shigeru Egami, Genshin Hironishi, and Tsutomu Ohshima, to form their own organizations, such as Shotokai and Shotokan Karate of America). They claimed to practice a version of Shotokan karate closer to what Funakoshi taught, as compared to the JKA style. The JKA Shotokan approach is also based on Funakoshi's karate, but with significant adaptations introduced mostly by Nakayama, who was JKA chief instructor until his death in 1987.[6] Japanese karateka (born 1930) Ohshima teaching at the 50th anniversary of the Caltech Karate Club on September 2, 2007 Tsutomu Ohshima (大島 劼, Ōshima Tsutomu, born August 6, 1930) is a prominent Japanese master of Shotokankarate who founded the organization Shotokan Karate of America (SKA). He is the Shihan (Chief Instructor) of the SKA, and to this day holds the rank of 5th dan, which was awarded to him by Gichin Funakoshi. Ohshima's branch of the Shotokan world has become known as “Shotokan Ohshima Karate-do.” Ohshima was born on August 6, 1930, in Qingdao, China. His family moved back to Japan just before the outbreak of World War II. By the age of five, he had already begun learning martial arts. He studied sumo from the ages of 5–15, kendo from 8–15, and judo from 9–13. Recalling an episode from his youth, Ohshima said, "One day I was going to Tokyo. This group was beating one young student because he was a quiet boy, but something he pushed with his elbow. And this was a ridiculous reason. But these guys were beating this young boy - same age as me, fifteen or sixteen. I got so mad. Mad, because person next to me said, 'Don't go, you get beat up.' I was ashamed of myself. I knew this was injustice. Why couldn't I put myself out there? I could be beaten up, but I could stand it. But I just sit there and overlook. I say to myself, 'Alas, how I am a coward guy.' I knew somebody was getting beaten up, but I couldn't help him. Therefore, when I was practicing karate, every time I ask Shotokan Federation'S Genealogy WTKF (World Traditional Karate Federation) L'albero genealogico delle organizzazioni Shotokan nel mondo dall' Okinawa-te ad oggi. La WTKF raccoglie al suo interno le diverse correnti Shotokan Kase ha, ITKF, JKA, SKI, JKS ecc ... così come le altre scuole Shito, Goju, Wado, Shorin-ryu ecc ... Questo in uno spirito di unificazione della famiglia del karate. La pratica nel rispetto di tutti i modi di praticare ma mantenendo chiare le radici e le linee guida dei propri Maestri di riferimento. Ciò consentirà di non disperdere il grande patrimonio culturale del karate mondiale. Ogni membro può creare il proprio gruppo come rappresentante di una o più scuole di cui sarà responsabile sia in termini di allenamento, di competizione e diffusione culturale. Un settore specifico è dedicato trasversalmente a TUTTI gli stili ed è il karate per per praticanti con disabilità... KADA Project. Inoltre, il nostro impegno è anche legato allo sviluppo di un Karate Olimpico legato prettamente all'aspetto competitivo in cui tutti esprimeranno il proprio valore agonistico ma con regole chiare che non vadano a snaturare i principi del karate. Ti aspettiamo !! Osu The WTKF is a World Organization who include all style and branch about "Traditional Karate" and "Sport Karate". His mission his to preserve the root of all without comtamination. The genealogical tree of Shotokan organizations in the World from Okinawa-te to date. The WTKF brings together within it the different currents Shotokan Kase ha, ITKF, JKA, SKI, JKS etc ... as well as the other schools Shito, Goju, Wado, Shorin-ryu etc ... This in a spirit of gathering the family of DO with respect for each person's specificities. Each member can create his Group according to a school or several schools for which he will be responsible In addition, an axis of development of a competitive Karate where ev Minoru Mochizuki sensei was a great Master of Martial Arts, an exceptional communicator, a witness of the transition from Bujutsu to Budō made by the innovators Jigorō Kanō and Morihei Ueshiba, and also an opponent of today’s growing corruption of classic Bujutsu and Budō in more commercial sports versions. Adriano Amari, who was lucky enough to meet him, offers us his memory of Mochizuki sensei by ADRIANO AMARI Minoru Mochizuki sensei was born on April 7, 1907, in Shizuoka. His was a family of martial artists and his father practised Kenjutsu and Jū Jutsu in his father-in-law’s famous Dōjō. When he moved to Tōkyō with his family at a very young age, he began practising Jūdō at the age of five, then Kendō and Jū Jutsu. In the latter art, in 1924 he was taken as a student by Oshima Sanjuro, Soke of the Gyokushin Ryū, an old Jū Jutsu style that specialises in joint dislocations, hip techniques and sutemi with a rich repertoire of Tai Sabaki. This particular practice will have several developments later. In 1927 he was accepted as Uchi Denshi by Kyūzō Mifune sensei (director of the Kōdōkan, 10th Dan in Jūdō) and later noticed by the founder of the Jūdō himself, Jigorō Kanō sensei, who made him one of his most brilliant assistants and researchers. On Kanō’s initiative, Minoru Mochizuki entered a special section of the Kōdōkan, the Kobudō Kenkyukai. This institute was supposed to train the best Kōdōkan talents in the old martial arts, the Koryū Bujutsu. Minoru sensei studied Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō Ryū (classical Japanese fencing), Shindō Musō Ryū (Jō stick fencing) and resumed studying Kendō with one of the best experts of the time, Nakayama Hakudō, who also introduced him to Musō Shindō Ryū Iai. He was later sent by Jigorō Kanō sensei to train with Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikidō. Also held in high esteem by Ueshiba sensei himself, in 1931 Minoru Mochizuki sensei returned to the city of Shizuoka, where he reconnected with his fami
Tsutomu Ohshima
Tsutomu Ohshima Born (1930-08-06) August 6, 1930 (age 94)
Qingdao, ChinaOther names Tsutomu Oshima Residence California, US Style Shotokankarate Teacher(s) Gichin Funakoshi, Hiroshi Noguchi, Shigeru Egami, Toshio Kamata-Watanabe, Tadao Okuyama, Matsuo Shibuya Rank 5th dan karate (SKA) Website http://www.ska.org/ Early life
both in terms of training and competition.