Seigi Nakamura | |
Birth Date: | 22 November 1924 |
Birth Place: | Okinawa, Japan |
Death Place: | Okinawa, Japan |
Martial Art: | Shōrin-ryū, Gōjū-ryū |
Teacher: | Shōshin Nagamine, Shinyei Kyan, Jokei Kushi |
Students: | Chokei Kishaba, Katsuhiko Shinzato, Toshihiro Oshiro |
Seigi Nakamura (仲村正義, Nakamura Seigi, 1924-1999) was an Okinawan martial arts master who learned both the Shōrin-ryū and Gōjū-ryū styles of karate.[1]
Nakamura practiced with Shoshin Nagamine and was also influenced by Shinyei Kyan and Jokei Kushi who were both senior students in Nagamine's dojo. For a number of years, Nakamura was the senior instructor at Nagamine's honbu dojo in Naha, Okinawa.[1]
Nakamura profoundly influenced and inspired what is taught in Shōrin-ryū Kishaba Juku and developed and founded by his students Chokei Kishaba and Katsuhiko Shinzato.[1] [2]