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Shuji Tasaki

Japanese Goju-ryu master (1933–2011), student of Gogen Yamaguchi, who founded the Seiwakai organization in the early 1970s.

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Date of Birth1933
Date of Death1/30/2011
Country of OriginJapanJapan

Biography

Shuji Tasaki was a Japanese master of Goju-ryu karate and the founder of the Seiwakai organization. He was born in 1933 and died on January 30, 2011.

He began training in Goju-ryu in 1952 under Gogen Yamaguchi.

In 1971–1972 (the source gives both years) he founded his own organization, Seiwakai, intended to spread traditional Goju-ryu. According to the South African branch of Seiwakai, he developed it into one of the most successful Goju-ryu schools in Japan and worldwide. In 2009 he reached 9th dan in the Japan Karatedo Federation Goju-kai (JKF Goju-kai).

Associated Martial Arts

Seiwakai Goju-ryuFounder→

Japanese line of Goju-ryu founded by Tasaki Shuji, a student of Yamaguchi Gogen. Fujiwara Seiichi leads it, and it has dojo in more than thirty countries.