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Motobu Chōki

1870 - 1944

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Motobu Chōki (本部 朝基, April 5, 1870 – April 15, 1944) was an Okinawan karate master and founder of Motobu-ryū. He was born into a branch of the Ryukyuan royal family, and at the age of 12, he and his older brother Motobu Chōyū were invited by Ankō Itosu to be taught karate. Motobu also studied karate under Sakuma, Matsumura Sōkon, and Kōsaku Matsumora. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Motobu Chōki has received more than 158,229 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Motobu Chōki is the 18th most popular martial arts (up from 19th in 2019), the 681st most popular biography from Japan (up from 787th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Martial Arts.

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Among MARTIAL ARTS

Among martial arts, Motobu Chōki ranks 18 out of 118. Before him are Masatoshi Nakayama, Kenwa Mabuni, Hélio Gracie, Chōjun Miyagi, Fedor Emelianenko, and Andy Hug. After him are Higaonna Kanryō, Matsumura Sōkon, Randy Couture, Cynthia Rothrock, Hironori Ōtsuka, and Morihiro Saito.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Motobu Chōki ranks 72. Before him are Leonid Krasin, Saki, Helmer Hanssen, Emil Orlík, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, and David Riazanov. After him are Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, Dadasaheb Phalke, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Ada Negri, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, and Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. Among people deceased in 1944, Motobu Chōki ranks 134. Before him are Thomas Midgley Jr., Takeo Takagi, Franz Kutschera, Abdurreshid Ibrahim, Paul Hazard, and Kazu Naoki. After him are Mineichi Koga, J. Walter Christie, Paul von Hase, Adelbert Schulz, Dadasaheb Phalke, and Patriarch Sergius of Moscow.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Motobu Chōki ranks 681 out of 6,048. Before him are Soga no Umako (551), Ii Naosuke (1815), Yasuo Haruyama (1906), Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), Kazu Naoki (1918), and Ueda Akinari (1734). After him are Yoshitaka Amano (1952), Hōnen (1133), Nagakura Shinpachi (1839), Harukichi Hyakutake (1888), Keisai Eisen (1790), and Noritaka Hidaka (1947).

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Among MARTIAL ARTS In Japan

Among martial arts born in Japan, Motobu Chōki ranks 8. Before him are Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Morihei Ueshiba (1883), Ankō Itosu (1831), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), Kenwa Mabuni (1889), and Chōjun Miyagi (1888). After him are Higaonna Kanryō (1853), Matsumura Sōkon (1809), Hironori Ōtsuka (1892), Morihiro Saito (1928), Koichi Tohei (1920), and Shoji Nishio (1927).

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