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Hironori Ōtsuka

1892 - 1982

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Hironori Ōtsuka (大塚 博紀, Ōtsuka Hironori, June 1, 1892 – January 29, 1982)[a] was a Japanese master of karate who created the Wadō-ryū style of karate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hironori Ōtsuka has received more than 92,495 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Hironori Ōtsuka is the 21st most popular martial arts (up from 23rd in 2019), the 795th most popular biography from Japan (up from 842nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Martial Arts.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.21

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  • 1.45

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Among MARTIAL ARTS

Among martial arts, Hironori Ōtsuka ranks 21 out of 179. Before him are Chōjun Miyagi, Hélio Gracie, Masatoshi Nakayama, Fedor Emelianenko, Higaonna Kanryō, and Cynthia Rothrock. After him are Billy Blanks, Motobu Chōki, Koichi Tohei, Matsumura Sōkon, Frank Dux, and Benny Urquidez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Hironori Ōtsuka ranks 130. Before him are Chen Gongbo, Walter Krüger, Sayed Darwish, Joseph Szigeti, Stanisław Maczek, and Yi Kwang-su. After him are Gustav-Adolf von Zangen, Robert Watson-Watt, Henry Darger, Ivan Tyulenev, Peljidiin Genden, and Ahmad Javad. Among people deceased in 1982, Hironori Ōtsuka ranks 111. Before him are Anandamayi Ma, Eduard Tubin, Christian Ferras, John Cheever, Riccardo Paletti, and Khalid al-Islambouli. After him are Georg Leibbrandt, Georg Konrad Morgen, Albert Soboul, Harold Sakata, Patrick Magee, and Shiro Teshima.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hironori Ōtsuka ranks 795 out of 6,245. Before him are Jirō Minami (1874), Yusuke Omi (1946), Yumi Umeoka (1950), Shigeyoshi Suzuki (1902), Shunsuke Nakamura (1978), and Tsuyoshi Kunieda (1944). After him are Kenji Kawai (1957), Kiyoura Keigo (1850), Takizawa Bakin (1767), Oku Yasukata (1847), Kodama Gentarō (1852), and Tatsuya Shiji (1938).

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Among MARTIAL ARTS In Japan

Among martial arts born in Japan, Hironori Ōtsuka ranks 9. Before him are Morihei Ueshiba (1883), Ankō Itosu (1831), Kenwa Mabuni (1889), Chōjun Miyagi (1888), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), and Higaonna Kanryō (1853). After him are Motobu Chōki (1870), Koichi Tohei (1920), Matsumura Sōkon (1809), Shoji Nishio (1927), Morihiro Saito (1928), and Gozo Shioda (1915).

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