JKA Honbu Dojo

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

JKA Headquarters Dojo · Japan Karate Association Honbu Dojo

Affiliations

• corporate_fareJapan 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 Associationlink history info

Locations (1)

• location_onYotsuya

  Yotsuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

  warning No sources cited

Instructors (2)

• 
  Hirokazu Kanazawa

  1956 – 1960
• 
  Masatoshi Nakayama

  1967 – 1970

Trained here (3)

• 
  Ari Anastasiadis

  sports_martial_artsShotokan Probable

  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. The interaction period is inferred from Anastasiadis's documented Tokyo/JKA stay in the late 1950s when Kanazawa was a JKA instructor.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  under Hirokazu Kanazawa (1956 – 1960)

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  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. The interaction period is inferred from Anastasiadis's documented Tokyo/JKA stay in the late 1950s when Kanazawa was a JKA instructor.

  visibilityFirst-hand

  “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 footagelink info
• 
  Yukio Mishima

  sports_martial_artsShotokan Confirmed

  Confirmed

  Three independent chains agree: Japanese Wikipedia names Nakayama Masatoshi as JKA chief instructor under whom Mishima trained from July 1967; 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.

  The evidence establishes the claim: it is sufficient and consistent, and any conflicting evidence is resolved.

  under Masatoshi Nakayama (1967 – 1970)

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  2 sources expand_more

  fact_check

  Three independent chains agree: Japanese Wikipedia names Nakayama Masatoshi as JKA chief instructor under whom Mishima trained from July 1967; 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.

  “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) link history info

  reviewsPeer-reviewed

  “it was precisely in 1967, coinciding with the publication of Hagakure nyūmon, that Mishima started his training inkarateatJapan'smostpowerfulkarateorganization, 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, 15-30link history info
• person
  Masakatsu Morita

  sports_martial_artsShotokan Probable

  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, but the article does not itemise the ten names, hence probable rather than confirmed.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  under Masatoshi Nakayama (1968 – 1970)

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  2 sources expand_more

  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, but the article does not itemise the ten names, hence probable rather than confirmed.

  “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) link history info

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

  — Masakatsu Morita - Wikipedia EN. Wikipedia (English)link history info

Tags

shotokan · jka · dojo · tokyo · karate

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