{"id":3006,"date":"2022-10-22T21:52:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2023-02-21T19:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:54:04","slug":"do-you-recognize-the-man-on-the-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/?p=3006","title":{"rendered":"Do You Recognize The Man on the Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Now here\u2019s a \u201ctrivia question\u201d. \u00a0Do you recognize the man on this book cover?<\/div>\n
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In \u00a0case you don\u2019t, he\u2019s the late karate legend, Master Masatoshi Nakayama. \u00a0His eminence in Shotokan Karate-Do is perhaps second only to that of the founder himself, Master Gichin Funakoshi. \u00a0As one might expect, he was a good Shotokan Karate-Do technician, but the talents which elevated him were in his long-term vision and organizational\/leadership skills that have had a direct and significant influence on most every Shotokan practitioner in the world today. \u00a0Master Nakayama was one of the founders and long-time Chief Instructor of the Japan Karate Association (JKA), a global karate organization through which all of your sensei learned so much of what we are able to share with you today. \u00a0His book, “Dynamic Karate\u201d, is considered a classic and was published over 60 years ago. \u00a0It is so valued by karateka, I see where the price of a used hardcover now starts at $87! (Master Nakayama was kind enough to sign Sensei Peter\u2019s and my hardcover in kanji)<\/div>\n
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Both his father and grandfather were physicians so perhaps it was natural that he would become a professor and Head of the Physical Education Department at Takushoku University. \u00a0As Chief Instructor of the JKA, he was instrumental in forming the JKA instructors training program – considered an intense \u00a0two-year post-graduate karate program for selected black belt university grads. \u00a0Upon graduation, certain of these instructors were dispatched as \u201cmissionaries\u201d to spread karate in other countries. \u00a0These included two of the early instructors at the Karate Association of Hawaii, Sensei Kanazawa and Asai. \u00a0Through the efforts of the early Japanese sensei, today there are millions practicing the art in nearly 200 countries. \u00a0To aid the many international students, Master Nakayama wrote numerous books on Shotokan Karate, often imparting a more scientific approach to explaining the art.<\/div>\n
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Sensei Peter and I were fortunate enough to meet and train with Master Nakayama at a 1985 seminar just two years before his passing. \u00a0After training, he was very kind and delayed departing to take photos with some of us. \u00a0I really didn\u2019t want to bother him with picture taking and was hurriedly changing out of my gi when my wife suggested\u2026er,\u00a0ordered<\/i> me to stop and take my green belt son to pose with the Master. \u00a0Till this day, I sometimes wonder if it wasn\u2019t somewhat disrespectful to take the pic, being half-dressed and wearing \u201ckamaboko\u201d slippers. \u00a0Despite this, I\u2019m very glad that we did, since having a photo with the late master was indeed, a once-in-a-lifetime thing.<\/div>\n
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Now here\u2019s a \u201ctrivia question\u201d. \u00a0Do you recognize the man on this book cover? In \u00a0case you don\u2019t, he\u2019s the late karate legend, Master Masatoshi Nakayama. \u00a0His eminence in Shotokan Karate-Do is perhaps second only to that of the founder himself, Master Gichin Funakoshi. \u00a0As one might expect, he was a good Shotokan Karate-Do technician, but the talents which elevated him were in his long-term vision and organizational\/leadership skills that have had a direct and significant influence on most every Shotokan practitioner in the world today. \u00a0Master Nakayama was one of the founders and long-time Chief Instructor of the Japan Karate Association (JKA), a global karate organization through which all of your sensei learned so much of what we are able to share with you today. \u00a0His book, “Dynamic Karate\u201d, is considered a classic and was published over 60 years ago. \u00a0It is so valued by karateka, I see where the price of a used hardcover now starts at $87! (Master Nakayama was kind enough to sign Sensei Peter\u2019s and my hardcover in kanji) Both his father and grandfather were physicians so perhaps it was natural that he would become a professor and Head of the Physical Education Department at [...]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}