Nineteen kata forms of karate--the art of self-defense without weapons--are presented here in complete detail. They are the ones selected by the great master and teacher, Gichin Funakoshi, to give comprehensive training in Karate-do, the way of karate. pFully illustrated demonstrations by the translator cover not only every technique of the kata but also the fundamentals and applications how to make a fist the correct form of the open hand preliminary training in blocking, striking and kicking the seven stances and sparring. pThe author presents, besides kata that he himself originated, beginning and advanced kata from both the Shorei school and the Shorin school, the former remarkable for their forcefulness and development of strength, the latter characterized by their gracefulness and lightning swiftness. pThis book, the most comprehensive and authoritative ever published, was being revised by the author shortly before his death in 1957, at the age of eighty-eight, and is translated