The Fundamentals of Goju-Ryu Karate by Gosei Yamaguchi
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Norimi Gosei Yamaguchi is the eldest son of Gogen Yamaguchi, President of the International Karate-Do Goju-Kai. The elder Yamaguchi was teaching karate at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan when Gosei was born on June 29, 1935, and Gosei began his study of goju karate from his father before he was five years old.
Gosei spent his first six years of elementary school in Manchuria, where his father was sent by the Japanese government in 1939.
Upon their return to Japan in 1945, the Yamaguchi family settled in Tokyo, where Gosei attended high school. He continued the study of goju karate under his father throughout his high school years, during which he also found time to study judo at the Kodokan, where he eventually attained the grade of shodan.
When Gosei entered Takushoku University to major in commerce and Russian, he decided to broaden his knowledge of karate by studying another style, and joined the Shotokan Karate Club
