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Chōjun Miyagi

1888 - 1953

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Chōjun Miyagi (宮城 長順, Miyagi Chōjun, April 25, 1888 – October 8, 1953) was an Okinawan martial artist who founded the Gōjū-ryū school of karate by blending Okinawan and Chinese influences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chōjun Miyagi has received more than 355,609 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Chōjun Miyagi is the 15th most popular martial arts, the 602nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 626th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Martial Arts.

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Among MARTIAL ARTS

Among martial arts, Chōjun Miyagi ranks 15 out of 179. Before him are Linda Lee Cadwell, Choi Hong Hi, Ankō Itosu, Kenwa Mabuni, Conor McGregor, and Andy Hug. After him are Hélio Gracie, Masatoshi Nakayama, Fedor Emelianenko, Higaonna Kanryō, Cynthia Rothrock, and Hironori Ōtsuka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Chōjun Miyagi ranks 87. Before him are Jean Wahl, Jakow Trachtenberg, Prince Axel of Denmark, Royal Rife, Victor Goldschmidt, and Gunichi Mikawa. After him are Hans Richter, Hans von Salmuth, Milan Stojadinović, Masaharu Homma, Paul Morand, and S. S. Van Dine. Among people deceased in 1953, Chōjun Miyagi ranks 56. Before him are Stanisław Wojciechowski, Jacques Thibaud, Albert Gleizes, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Sergei Winogradsky, and René Fonck. After him are Julian Tuwim, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Margaret Bondfield, Albert Austin, Iuliu Maniu, and James Finlayson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Chōjun Miyagi ranks 602 out of 6,245. Before him are Ishirō Honda (1911), Gunichi Mikawa (1888), Seki Matsunaga (1928), Atsushi Nakajima (1909), Kōzō Okamoto (1947), and Hiroshi Ōshima (1886). After him are Ukita Hideie (1573), Tsutomu Hata (1935), Shūmei Ōkawa (1886), Hajime Moriyasu (1968), Yukio Shimomura (1932), and Shigeko Higashikuni (1925).

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Among MARTIAL ARTS In Japan

Among martial arts born in Japan, Chōjun Miyagi ranks 6. Before him are Kanō Jigorō (1860), Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Morihei Ueshiba (1883), Ankō Itosu (1831), and Kenwa Mabuni (1889). After him are Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), Higaonna Kanryō (1853), Hironori Ōtsuka (1892), Motobu Chōki (1870), Koichi Tohei (1920), and Matsumura Sōkon (1809).

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