![]() When his father's Shihan (senior assistant instructor) Takeshi Shimoda died, Gigo assumed his position within the Shotokan organization teaching in various universities. Gigo moved from Okinawa to Tokyo with his father when he was 17, and later became a radiographer of the Section of Physical and Medical Consultation of the Ministry of Education. ![]() In the early years, Gichin Funakoshi often took Gigo with him to his trainings with Yasutsune Itosu. ![]() He was sickly as a child and began the formal study of karate-do at the age of twelve as a means to improve his health. Gigo Funakoshi was born in Okinawa and diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of seven. Gigō Funakoshi ( Japanese: 船越義豪, Hepburn: Funakoshi Gigō, Funakoshi Yoshitaka) (1906 – 24 November 1945) was the third son of Gichin Funakoshi (the founder of Shōtōkan karate) and is widely credited with developing the foundation of the modern karate Shotokan style. Mitsusuke Harada, Taiji Kase, Won Kuk Lee, Mas Oyama, Tomosaburo Okano, Shigeru Egami, Genshin Hironishi, Masatoshi Nakayama, Motokuni Sugiura, Hidetaka Nishiyama, Tadao Okuyama Gichin Funakoshi (his father), Takeshi Shimodaġ0th dan, successor waka (後継者) sensei to his father
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