I Want to Be Baptized

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Shimabuku Tatsuo, Gichin Funakoshi, Motobu ChÅ?ki, AnkÅ? Itosu, ChÅ?jun Miyagi, Ei'ichi Miyazato, Morio Higaonna, Kenwa Mabuni, Kanken TÅ?yama, Matsumura SÅ?kon, KentsÅ? Yabu, EizÅ? Shimabukuro, Seikichi Toguchi, Teruyuki Okazaki, ShÅ?shin Nagamine, Meitatsu Yagi, Richard Rabago, Higaonna KanryÅ?, Meitoku Yagi, Seikichi Iha, AnkÅ? Asato, Ken Kitashiba, Kanbun Uechi, Taira Shinken, ChÅ?toku Kyan, ZenryÅ? Shimabukuro, SekÅ? Higa, Kanei Uechi, Kiyohide ShinjÅ?, ShÅ?gorÅ? Nakazato, Kanga Sakukawa, Motobu ChÅ?yÅ?, PÄ"chin Higa, SeishÅ? Arakaki, Shinpan Gusukuma, Ansei Ueshiro, Peichin Takahara, Masanobu Kikukawa, Kenyu Chinen, Katsuya Miyahira, Nakama Chozo, ChÅ?shin Chibana, Seiichi Iju, Higaonna Kanryu, Toshihiro Oshiro, Shinko Matayoshi, Kanki Izumigawa, KÅ?saku Matsumora. Excerpt: In this Japanese name , the family name is Asato . Ank Asato Anko Asato ( , Asato Ank ? , Azato Yasutsune in Japanese, 1827 1906) was an Okinawan master of karate . He and Ank Itosu were the two main karate masters who taught Gichin Funakoshi , the founder of Sh t kan-ry karate. Funakoshi appears to be the source of most of the information available on Asato. Many articles contain information about Asato, but the relevant parts are clearly based on Funakoshi's descriptions of him. Funakoshi first met Asato when he was a schoolmate of Asato's son; he called Asato "one of Okinawa's greatest experts in the art of karate." According to Funakoshi, Asato's family belonged to the Tonochi class (hereditary town and village chiefs), and held authority in the village of Asato, halfway between Shuri and Naha , and he was not only a master of karate, but also skilled at riding horses, Jigen-ry kend (swordsmanship), archery, and an exceptional scholar. In a 1934 article, Funakoshi noted that Asato and Itosu had studied karate together u...