"""Shotokan (松濤館 Shōtōkan) is a style of karate, created from different combative techniques by Gichin Funakoshi (1868– 1957) and his child Gigo (Yoshitaka) Funakoshi (1906– 1945). Gichin was conceived in Okinawa[1] and is generally credited with advancing """"karate do"""" through a progression of open exhibits, and by advancing the improvement of college karate clubs, including those at Keio, Waseda, Hitotsubashi (Shodai), Takushoku, Chuo, Gakushuin, and Hosei.[2] Funakoshi had numerous understudies at the college clubs and outside dojos, who kept on showing karate after his demise in 1957. Nonetheless, inside differences (specifically the idea that opposition is in opposition to the embodiment of karate) prompted the production of various associations—including an underlying split between the Japan Karate Association (headed by Masatoshi Nakayama) and the Shotokai (headed by Motonobu Hironishi and Shigeru Egami), trailed by numerous others—with the goal that today there is no single """"Shotokan school"""", in spite of the fact that they all bear Funakoshi's impact. As the most broadly honed style, Shotokan is viewed as a conventional and compelling type of karate do."""