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Matsumura Sōkon

1809 - 1899

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Sōkon Matsumura (松村 宗棍, Matsumura Sōkon) was one of the original karate masters of Okinawa. The years of his lifespan are reported variously as 1809–1901 or 1798–1890 or 1809–1896 or 1800–1892. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matsumura Sōkon has received more than 152,804 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Matsumura Sōkon is the 25th most popular martial arts (down from 20th in 2019), the 942nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 765th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Martial Arts.

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Among MARTIAL ARTS

Among martial arts, Matsumura Sōkon ranks 25 out of 179. Before him are Higaonna Kanryō, Cynthia Rothrock, Hironori Ōtsuka, Billy Blanks, Motobu Chōki, and Koichi Tohei. After him are Frank Dux, Benny Urquidez, Anderson Silva, Semmy Schilt, Shoji Nishio, and Morihiro Saito.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Matsumura Sōkon ranks 43. Before him are Karl Koch, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Bénédict Morel, Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, Kit Carson, and Constantin von Alvensleben. After him are Robert Cornelius, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, William B. Travis, Cyrus McCormick, Oswald Heer, and Louis Charles Delescluze. Among people deceased in 1899, Matsumura Sōkon ranks 43. Before him are Lucien Quélet, Mór Than, José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Sophronius IV of Alexandria, Paul Janet, and Teodolfo Mertel. After him are Dwight L. Moody, Henry Becque, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, Juliusz Kossak, Adile Sultan, and Lars Fredrik Nilson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Matsumura Sōkon ranks 942 out of 6,245. Before him are Tomomi Seo (1950), Tokugawa Nariaki (1800), Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Futabatei Shimei (1864), Takeshi Obata (1969), and Ryuzo Shimizu (1902). After him are Takeshi Ono (1944), Kuroda Seiki (1866), Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948), Ai Yazawa (1967), Miyoshi Umeki (1929), and Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu (1875).

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Among MARTIAL ARTS In Japan

Among martial arts born in Japan, Matsumura Sōkon ranks 12. Before him are Chōjun Miyagi (1888), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), Higaonna Kanryō (1853), Hironori Ōtsuka (1892), Motobu Chōki (1870), and Koichi Tohei (1920). After him are Shoji Nishio (1927), Morihiro Saito (1928), Gozo Shioda (1915), Takayuki Kubota (1934), Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928), and Toyokazu Nomura (1949).

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