From the method presented in this book , the beginner can understand what it means to be calm of spirit but quick of mind. While actualizing the basic skills that lead to the confidence necessary to face any adversary, he will also develop the discipline that checks the misuse of such skills.

More advanced students, also, will find much of value here, for the author’s practice of karate spans more than four decades, and he assesses both the changes in ways of training and in the way of thinking - as well as the significance of these changes. He shows the path leading to the strengthening of body and mind and, thus, the harmony of mind and body.

The author : Shigeru Egami was president and chief instructor of the Shoto-kan of the Japan Karate-do Shoto-kai. Born in 1912 in Fukuoka Prefecture, he began practicing karate while a student at Waseda University, whose karate club he helped to establish. In 1937, he was appointed by Gichin Funakoshi to the Shoto-kan’s committee for evaluation; after the Second World War he studied under Master Funakoshi and assisted him in teaching. Formerly manager of Waseda University’s karate club and lecturer in physical education at the University he also taught karate at Gakushuin, Toho and Chuo Universities and was active in establishing a number of karate organizations both in Japan and overseas.