Aryana Libris

Author : Noble Graham
Title : Mas Oyama in America
Year : *

Link download : Noble_Graham_-_Mas_Oyama_in_America.zip

This article, or historical essay, is part of the book I am trying to write on the history of karate and its masters. This is one sec-tion of the chapter on Mas Oyama, his Kyokushinkai style, and his influence on karate his-tory. It’s about his 1952 tour of the USA and it relies heavily on translations from Japanese ma-terial: I have to thank Mitchell Ninomiya for his translation of the old “Ooru Yamimono” arti-cle, and especially Brian Sekiya, who translated all of the other Japanese material. There would-n’t really have been a finished piece without Brian’s input. Thanks also to the Old Time Strongman site for the rare old newspaper reference to Sebas-tian Miller, “The Rock Breaker”. ...