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December 7, 1912 – January 8, 1981 was a pioneering Japanese master of Shotokan karate who founded the Shōtōkai style. He was a student of Gichin Funakoshi, who is widely recognized as the founder of modern karate.
After Egami turned 40, his health worsened. Shotokan Egami Ryu Karate Union: Shigeru Egami ( c. 2005). Retrieved on March 23, 2010. After 1956, he underwent two operations, and at one point was in cardiac arrest for just under 10 minutes. Following Funakoshi's death in 1957, Egami began trying to change karate's poor reputation as a 'deadly martial art,' something Funakoshi had tried to do all his life. Egami never compromised on one essential aspect of karate: to avoid all aspects of sport-oriented combat and karate. He considered that competitions modified the training and spirit of karate too much, and he emphasized that this would be perfectly clear once one had the insight that karate is much more than winning combats.
In 1973, Egami visited Los Angeles to teach, and in 1976 he toured Taiwan and five European countries on a similar mission. Egami wrote the book The Way of Karate: Beyond technique (1976).Egami, S. (1976): The Way of Karate: Beyond technique. Tokyo: Kodansha. ()"Long awaited book of Master Shigeru Egami" (advertisement). Black Belt, 14(12):39. Revised editions were published posthumously as The Heart of Karate-Do in 1986 and 2000.Egami, S. (1986): The Heart of Karate-Do. Tokyo: Kodansha. ()Egami, S. (2000): The Heart of Karate-Do. Tokyo: Kodansha. ()
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