The exciting lives of great Karate masters such as you've never read. Their secrets, their training and their stories. Men who shaped the Karate, which clashed in the dark alleys of the red-light districts, who defeated younger fighters, who intimidated bulls, who protected villages, who traveled by sea fighting the pirates, etc. In this book you will find all this. All this is accompanied by more than 50 photos and illustrations, as well as to allow a better understanding. This book, whose goal is to spread the exact biographies of the great masters, reports only information supported by reliable sources, both Okinawans and foreign. Inside you you will find several insights, including illustrations and descriptions of the tools required to practice Hojo undo. The legend of the Okinawan Karate masters. Biographies, curiosities and mysteries is an essential book for researchers and practitioners of Karate.