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Miyagi Chōjun

1888-04-25 - 1953-10-08

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Japanese Wikipedia article on Miyagi Chojun (1888-1953), karateka from Okinawa who named the Goju-ryu style in 1931 (draft of his Goju-ryu Kempo manuscript of August 1931 preserved at the Okinawa Karate Museum), one of the four major karate styles of Japan. Born April 25, 1888 in Higashi-machi, Naha as the eldest son of a wealthy merchant family; adopted in 1893 at age five into the Miyagi main family.

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