After fourteen months of training in the wilderness, his friend informed Mas Oyama that he could no longer provide the monthly supplies of food, and Mas Oyama had to return to civilization.Ī few months later, in 1947, Mas Oyama won the karate section of the first Japanese National Martial Arts Championships after World War II. After six months of training, his student was unable to handle the solitude and secretly fled during the night, leaving Mas Oyama completely alone to continue his training.
Accompanied by a student, he went into the wilderness there to train, with a friend bringing food supplies to them once a month. Mas Oyama thought that this would be an appropriate place to begin the rigorous training he had planned for himself.
Minobu in Chiba Prefecture, where Musashi had developed his style of sword fighting. Both the novel and the author helped to teach him the meaning of Bushido, the Way of the Warrior. He suggested that Mas Oyama retreat from civilization for three years to train his mind and body without the distractions of the outside world.Īround this time, Mas Oyama also met Eiji Yoshikawa, the author of the novel Musashi, which was based on the life and exploits of Miyamoto Musashi, Japan’s most famous Samurai warrior. So Nei Chu, renowned for the power of his body as well as his spiritual insight, encouraged Mas Oyama to dedicate his life to the Martial Way. At this point, Mas Oyama took a serious interest in Judo, and in less than four years he achieved the rank of Yondan in Judo as well.Īfter the end of World War II, Mas Oyama began training under So Nei Chu, one of the highest authorities in Japan of Goju Ryu, an Okinawan karate style. Mas Oyama’s training progressed so rapidly that by the age of 17, he was a Nidan (2nd Dan), and by the age of 20, he was a Yondan (4th Dan) in Shotokan. Shortly afterwards, he began training at the dojo of Gichin Funakoshi, who had brought karate from Okinawa to Japan and developed what is now known as Shotokan Karate. In 1938, at the age of 15, Mas Oyama moved to Japan to train as an aviator, and continued his martial arts training by participating in judo and boxing. When Mas Oyama returned to Korea at the age of 12, he continued his training in Korean kempo. While living at his sister’s farm in Manchuria at the age of nine, he began his lifelong journey along the Martial Way when he began studying the southern Chinese form of kempo know as “Eighteen Hands”. Sosai (President) Masutatsu Oyama, the founder of Kyokushin Karate, was born in southern Korea in 1923.
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