Tsutomu Ohshima
| Tsutomu Ohshima | |
|---|---|
Ohshima teaching at the 50th anniversary of the Caltech Karate Club on September 2, 2007 | |
| Born | August 6, 1930 Qingdao, China |
| Other names | Tsutomu Oshima |
| Residence | California, US |
| Style | Shotokan karate |
| Teacher(s) | Gichin Funakoshi, Hiroshi Noguchi, Shigeru Egami, Toshio Kamata-Watanabe, Tadao Okuyama, Matsuo Shibuya |
| Rank | 5th dan karate (SKA) |
| Other information | |
| Website | http://www.ska.org/ |
Tsutomu Ohshima (大島 劼, Ōshima Tsutomu, born August 6, 1930)[a] is a prominent Japanese master of Shotokan karate who founded the organization Shotokan Karate of America (SKA). He is the Shihan (Chief Instructor) of the SKA, and to this day holds the rank of 5th dan, which was awarded to him by Gichin Funakoshi. Ohshima's branch of the Shotokan world has become known as “Shotokan Ohshima Karate-do.”