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    Chōjun Miyagi (宮城 長順, Miyagi Chōjun, April 25, 1888 – October 8, 1953) was an Okinawan martial artist who founded the Gōjū-ryū school of karate by blending...
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  • village. In addition, he learned karate and fishing from his father Miyagi Chōjun, a fisherman. Breaking family tradition, his father also taught karate...
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  • Schlossberg define the following works as part of the "Miyagi-verse" (characters who interacted with Mr. Miyagi) canon: The Karate Kid (1984), The Karate Kid Part...
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    reported this incident to Chōjun Miyagi, who decided on the name Gōjū-ryū ("hard soft style") as a name for his style. Chojun Miyagi took the name from a line...
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    become Naha-te. One of his students was the founder of Gojū-ryū, Chōjun Miyagi. Chōjun Miyagi taught such well-known karateka as Seko Higa (who also trained...
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  • Ritsumeikan University during the time Chōjun Miyagi visited, and Chōjun Miyagi stayed in Yogi's apartment. Chōjun Miyagi later gave Gōgen Yamaguchi the responsibility...
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    a policeman at the time, continued his studies with Miyagi Chōjun for 38 years until Miyagi's death. In 1931, Higa retired from the police force and...
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    derived from the Kusanku form. One of his close friends, Chōjun Miyagi (宮城 長順, Miyagi Chōjun) (founder of Gojū-ryū Karate) introduced Mabuni to another...
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  • Mr. Miyagi Nobu McCarthy as Yukie Tamlyn Tomita as Kumiko Danny Kamekona as Sato Yuji Okumoto as Chozen Toguchi Charlie Tanimoto as Miyagi Chōjun Joey...
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    Important Okinawan masters of Naha-te: Arakaki Seishō Higaonna Kanryō Miyagi Chōjun Kyoda Jūhatsu Mabuni Kenwa Uechi Kanbun Important kata: Sanchin Saifā...
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  • and set of rules of thumb which were used by Gōjū-ryū karate masters (Chōjun Miyagi, Seikichi Toguchi) to extract the primary fighting applications (Oyo)...
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  • training under Miyagi Chōjun, who founded the Gojū-ryū style, while a student at the Doshisha University in Kyoto. After a few months, Miyagi Chōjun returned...
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    Morita, who played Mr. Miyagi. The Karate Kid screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen stated that Mr. Miyagi was named after Chōjun Miyagi, the founder of the Goju-ryu...
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  • include: Atsushi Miyagi (宮城 淳, born 1931), Japanese tennis player Chōjun Miyagi (宮城 長順, 1888–1953), Okinawan martial artist Kintaro Miyagi, Filipino footballer...
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  • Chinese styles studied by Higaonna Kanryō , who was the teacher of Miyagi Chojun, the founder of Gōjū-ryū karate. However, Tōon-ryū, the style founded...
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  • with him until Kanryō's death in 1915. One month after Kyoda started, Miyagi Chōjun (co-founder of Gōjū-ryū) entered the dojo. In 1908, Kenwa Mabuni (founder...
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  • there are two Sanchin kata. The first, "Miyagi's Sanchin" or sanchin dai ichi, was created by Chōjun Miyagi. The second, "Higashionna's sanchin" or sanchin...
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  • leading Okinawan master of Goju-ryu karate. He was a senior student of Chōjun Miyagi, founder of the Goju-ryu style. Miyazato held the rank of 10th dan in...
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    region of China who returned with those skills to Okinawa. His student, Chōjun Miyagi, would later found Gōjū ryū Karate. Higaonna was born in Nishimura,...
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  • from Kyan, not Miyagi. The Seiunchin kata was brought into Isshin-ryū from Shimabuku's studies with the Gojū-ryū founder, Chojun Miyagi. It is theorized...
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    cited the visit by Miyagi Chojun to Fuzhou to seek Ryū Ryū Ko after Miyagi's teacher, Kanryo Higaonna died in October 1915. Miyagi Chojun travelled to Fuzhou...
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  • Chojun Miyagi. Meibukan means "House of the pure-minded warrior." Yagi opened the first Meibukan dojo in 1952. He was the first student of Miyagi recorded...
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  • the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai conferred the title of kyoshi to Ueshima, Chōjun Miyagi (founder of the Gōjū-ryū style), and Yasuhiro Konishi (founder of the...
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    recommended that Higaonna learn Goju-ryu karate, introducing him to Chojun Miyagi's garden dojo in 1954, one year after the founder's passing. At the time...
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  • Japanese teacher who did not speak English but had been a student of Chōjun Miyagi. As a Hollywood screenwriter, Kamen was mentored by Frank Price who...
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    Chōmo the techniques he had learned from Chōyū. In 1926, together with Miyagi Chōjun, Chōyū founded the Okinawa Karate Research Club in Naha and became its...
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    teaching Shorin-ryu shortly after World War II and was associated with Miyagi Chojun, Kyoda Jyuhatsu and Kyan Chotoku. He taught regularly at Shuri Castle...
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  • of all three of the major styles of Okinawan Karate, Uechi Kanbun, Miyagi Chojun, and Chibana Chosin. George E. Mattson returned to Okinawa many times...
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    probably derived from the 'Kusanku' form. One of his close friends, Chōjun Miyagi (宮城長順) (founder of Gōjū-ryū) introduced Mabuni to another great of that...
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  • he was in touch with karate and some of its greatest masters such as Miyagi Chojun, Funakoshi Gichin, and Motobu Chōki from childhood. Besides his karate...
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