Keinosuke Enoeda

Keinosuke Enoeda, born on 4 July 1935 on the island of Kyushu, Japan, and dead on 29 March 2003, was a Japanese master of Shotokan karate and long-time Chief Instructor of the Karate Union of Great Britain. He trained in kendo and judo as a youth, reached 2nd dan in judo by sixteen, and took up karate at Takushoku University before studying at the Japan Karate Association headquarters under Masatoshi Nakayama. He won the JKA All Japan Championship in 1963 and earned the nickname Tora, the Tiger. In 1965 he travelled to England with other JKA instructors and began teaching in Liverpool. He was ranked 8th dan in 1985 and was posthumously awarded 9th dan, and he wrote several books on Shotokan karate.