Biografii

Sensei Dan Stuparu este unul din pionerii karate-ului din Romania. Incepe sa studieze artele martiale cu mestrul Dorel Negrea, la Brasov unde un grup restrans de parcticanti increcau sa descopere tainele karate-ului. Este unul dintre fondatorii FRAM imediat dupa revolutia din decembrie 1989, artele martiale fiind interzise in perioada comunista.

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Acest mare maestru este cunoscut şi sub numele Motonobu Hironishi. Născut în 1913, atunci când a venit timpul să înveţe pentru a-şi construi o carieră, a făcut-o la faimoasa şi reînnoita Universitate Waseda. A fost instructor şef la Universitatea Chuo.

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DACĂ AR TREBUI SĂ ACORDĂM CREDIT UNEI SINGURE PERSOANE pentru poziţia de care Karate se bucură în Japonia, acesta ar fi Gichin Funakoshi. Născut în Shuri, Okinawa, si-a început munca de recunoaştere oficială a Karate-ului în Japonia abia în a doua jumătate a vieţii, la vârsta de cincizeci şi trei de ani.

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Born in Tokyo in 1928, Hidetaka Nishiyama began his karate training in 1943 under Gichin Funakoshi at the Shoto- kan. Two years later, while enrolled at Takushoku University, he became a member of the university’s karate team, for which in 1949 he was named captain. He was a co-founder of the All Japan Collegiate Karate Federation and was elected its first chairman.

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Shigeru Egami was born in the Fukuoka Prefecture the year 1912, one of Gichin Funakoshi Sensei’s earliest students, but more than that, he was one of his most faithful and correct followers. This was surely the reason why O-sensei left his organization, Shotokai, in his hands. Egami met Master Funakoshi when he was 18 years old, the moment he began studying at the famous Waseda University, there he helped to establish its Karate Club. Before that occasion he had already practiced Judo, Kendo and Aikido.
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Born in the city of Shuri (there is a bit of uncertainty on the exact year) on the island of Okinawa, early in his life he was sent to train to the Master Sakugawa school. He furthermore was taught directly by Master Kushanku. There is also enough information to believe that he also was taught by a Chinese Master called Iwah and on the other hand some master of the Jigen sword school of the Satsuma clan, most surely a Master called Yashuhiro Ijuin.

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Master of Okinawan Karate, son of a Tonichi, one of the two highest classes of the Okinawan society, the was born in the town of Azato.

He was furthermore advisor to the Okinawan King in military subjects and was actually direct advisor to the king. He was furthermore one of the greatest experts of karate on the island. He was furthermore an expert in horseriding, kendo and archery. Furthermore he was very well versed.

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Born in the city of Shuri, Okinawa. At the age of 16 he started to train Karate with Master Sokon “Bushi” Matsumura.

He was a very close friend of Matsumuras uchi deshi, Yasutsune (Ankoh) Azato and was furthermore a student of Shimpan Gusukuma and Yasuri, Iwah’s uchi deshi.

He is famous for being instrumental in the introduction of Karate in the public school system curricula. To help the teaching process he developed the Pinan kata basing himself on the advanced Kata like: Kushanku, Passai, Chinto and Jion.

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Even though he died young, before becoming 40 (spring 1945) Gigo Funakoshi (or Yoshitaka, depending on how you read the two kanji that form his name), Master Funakoshi’s third son had a far-reaching effect on modern Karate.

Whereas his father was responsible for transforming karate from a mere fighting technique to a philosophical martial do (way of life), Yoshitaka was in charge of developing, backed up by his father and helped by other important martial artists, a karate technique that definitively separated Japanese Karate-do from the local Okinawan art, giving it a completely different and at the same time notoriously Japanese flavor.

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(Takeshi Shimoda (right) and O-sensei Funakoshi (left))

Takeshi Shimoda was Gichin Funakoshi’s assistant and instructor and was the most talented of O-sensei’s students (in Shigeru Egami’s words) in the early thirties. He traveled around Japan together with Egami among other Funakoshi followers giving demonstrations of Karate. He was an expert in Kendo of the Nen-ryu school and also studied Ninjutsu.

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