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Dragon Man: Shimabuku Tatsuo Sensei, founder of Isshin-ryu Karate and Kobudo

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calendar_month1997
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Advincula, A. J.. (1997). Dragon Man: Shimabuku Tatsuo Sensei, founder of Isshin-ryu Karate and Kobudo

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Biography of Shimabuku Tatsuo (1908-1975), founder of Isshin-ryu karate, by A.J. Advincula (1997). A primary account by a practitioner who knew him: covers his birth in Chan village (now Kinaka), Gushikawa City, his Shuri-te study with Chotoku Kyan (four years, from about age 23-24), Naha-te study with Chojun Miyagi (about three years from around 1936), a year with Choki Motobu in Naha (1938), his time in the Philippines and Osaka, and the naming of Isshin-ryu on January 15, 1956. The dates differ in places from the EN Wikipedia article.

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Dragon Man: Shimabuku Tatsuo Sensei, founder of Isshin-ryu Karate and Kobudo. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01KZET6VQDZWGVFM1MCBW2ZMNA - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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