Description

The headquarters dojo of the Japan Karate Association (JKA), built in 1955 in Yotsuya, Tokyo. It housed the JKA's two-year specialist instructor training program (kenshusei) that graduated instructors such as Hirokazu Kanazawa, and was where foreign students including Ari Anastasiadis trained.

Also known as

Affiliations

• account_balanceJapan Karate Association

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  "In 1955 a headquarters dojo was built at Yotsuya in Tokyo. It spurred the building of JKA branch dojo all across Japan."

  — Japan Karate Association. Master Nakayama Masatoshi - Japan Karate Associationlinkinfo

Instructors (2)

• 
  Hirokazu Kanazawa

  1956 - 1960
• 
  Masatoshi Nakayama

  1967 - 1970

Trained here (3)

• 
  Ari Anastasiadis

  linkShotokan 2

  Probable

  Goran Glucina's first-person video description states that he and Ari Anastasiadis both trained under Hirokazu Kanazawa; corroborated by the Karate Maskoutain hommage documenting Anastasiadis's collaboration with Kanazawa on SKIF instructional materials. The interaction period is inferred from Anastasiadis's documented Tokyo/JKA stay in the late 1950s when Kanazawa was a JKA instructor, not directly dated by any source.

  under Hirokazu Kanazawa badge (1956 - 1960)

  expand_morefact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  1 source

  fact_check

  Goran Glucina's first-person video description states that he and Ari Anastasiadis both trained under Hirokazu Kanazawa; corroborated by the Karate Maskoutain hommage documenting Anastasiadis's collaboration with Kanazawa on SKIF instructional materials. The interaction period is inferred from Anastasiadis's documented Tokyo/JKA stay in the late 1950s when Kanazawa was a JKA instructor, not directly dated by any source.

  assessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  "We all trained under the greatest Karate Master of modern times HIROKAZU KANAZAWA Soke who spread Karate-Do throughout the Western World."

  — Glucina, Goran. (2022). KARATE DEMONSTRATION on NHK TV, TOKYO JAPAN 1985 Rare footagelinkinfo
• 
  Yukio Mishima

  linkShotokan 3

  Confirmed

  Three independent chains agree: Japanese Wikipedia gives a detailed passage naming Nakayama Masatoshi as JKA chief instructor under whom Mishima trained from July 1967, with his own words to Nakayama quoted; the peer-reviewed JIRS study dates his start at the JKA to 1967; and Christopher Ross records the resulting grade as a first dan in Shotokan karate. No primary JKA register was consulted, but the convergence justifies confirmed.

  under Masatoshi Nakayama badge (1967 - 1970)

  expand_morefact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  2 sources

  fact_check

  Three independent chains agree: Japanese Wikipedia gives a detailed passage naming Nakayama Masatoshi as JKA chief instructor under whom Mishima trained from July 1967, with his own words to Nakayama quoted; the peer-reviewed JIRS study dates his start at the JKA to 1967; and Christopher Ross records the resulting grade as a first dan in Shotokan karate. No primary JKA register was consulted, but the convergence justifies confirmed.

  assessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  "6月には日本空手協会道場に入門し、中山正敏（日本空手協会首席師範）のもと、7月から空手の稽古を始めた。三島は中山に、「私は文士として野垂れ死にはしたくない。少なくとも日本人として、行動を通して〈空〉とか〈無〉というものを把握していきたい」と語ったという。"

  — 三島由紀夫 - 日本語版ウィキペディア. Wikipedia (Japanese) linkinfo

  "it was precisely in 1967, coinciding with the publication of Hagakure nyūmon, that Mishima started his training in karate at Japan's most powerful karate organization, the Japan Karate Association (JKA)"

  — González de la Fuente, Eduardo. (2021-03). In which Ways is Karate (dō) Japanese? A Consideration on Cultural Images of Bushidō and Nihonjinron in the Postwar Globalization of Martial Arts. Journal of Inter-Regional Studies - Regional and Global Perspectives, 4, 15-30linkhistoryinfo
• Ma
  Masakatsu Morita

  linkShotokan 2

  Probable

  The Tatenokai article states that from autumn 1968 about ten core members began karate under Nakayama Masatoshi's instruction; Morita was a first-generation core member and later student president, but the article does not itemise the ten names and attendance was voluntary for members, hence probable rather than confirmed.

  under Masatoshi Nakayama badge (1968 - 1970)

  expand_morefact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  2 sources

  fact_check

  The Tatenokai article states that from autumn 1968 about ten core members began karate under Nakayama Masatoshi's instruction; Morita was a first-generation core member and later student president, but the article does not itemise the ten names and attendance was voluntary for members, hence probable rather than confirmed.

  assessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  "この秋から主要会員約10名が中山正敏の指導で空手の稽古を始めた。"

  — 楯の会 - 日本語版ウィキペディア. Wikipedia (Japanese) linkinfo

  "He first met Mishima on 19 June 1967, and joined the Tatenokai at its establishment in October 1968."

  — Masakatsu Morita - Wikipedia EN. Wikipedia (English)linkinfo

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