Shōshin Nagamine

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Shōshin Nagamine
Motobu Choki, Teruo Hayashi, Kotatsu Iha
RankHanshi, 10th Dan[1]
Notable studentsChokei Kishaba,Kensei Taba (Shogen Ryu) Seigi Nakamura Takayoshi Nagamine, Hiroshi Takeda, Katsuhiko Shinzato, Yasuhara Makishi, Chotoku Omine, Frank Grant

Shōshin Nagamine (長嶺 将真, Nagamine Shōshin, 15 July 1907 – 2 November 1997) was an Okinawa karate master as well as a soldier, police superintendent, mayor of Naha City, play director and author.

Early life and karate-do

Nagamine was born in Tomari, in

pine tree
".

Career in the army

After graduation in March 1928, he began to study martial arts full-time, moving to Shuri and training under Taro Shimabuku (島袋善良)and Ankichi Arakaki. Later that year, he was conscripted into the Japanese army in the 47th Infantry Regiment, and fought in China for the Jinan incident before receiving an honourable discharge in 1931.

Leaving the army, Nagamine sought an area in which his martial arts abilities would be useful, eventually settling on the police force.

Career in the police force

During his time as a police officer, Nagamine received further instruction in karate from

Police Superintendent, of Motobu
, and was training his own officers in karate.

Nagamine retired as a policeman in 1952, and in 1953 he returned to Naha City and set up his own

Matsubayashi-ryu
until his own death in 2012.

Author

Nagamine wrote two books in Japanese, The Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do and Tales of Okinawa's Great Masters. The Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do, which has been reprinted many times, was first published in the English language in 1976. This was translated into the English language by Nagamine's student Katsuhiko Shinzato. Tales of Okinawa's Great Masters was translated into the English language by Patrick McCarthy [Bubishi], and published in 2000, by Charles Tuttle.

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