Tomoji Miyamoto Sensei: Photo Gallery and Biography

Tomoji Miyamoto was born in 1945, graduated in Law from the University of Chuo. He has a fifth dan (the highest degree given by Gichin Funakoshi and in Shotokai), is a Shotokan instructor (ie Shotokan Dojo, Shotokai Hombu Dojo in Japan, reconstruction of the original) and physical education teacher at Chuo University. He also teaches at the University of Agriculture in Tokyo and at the University of Seijo. He was the right hand of Shigeru Egami in the Shotokan Dojo. In Master Egami's book "Karate, Beyond Technique", Miyamoto Sensei serves as a model for technical photos.

Archival Insight: Master Miyamoto in the Egami Household

In Kimikagesō, Chiyoko Egami warmly recalls Tomoji Miyamoto as one of the most devoted young practitioners who supported Master Egami during the 1960s and 1970s. As a Chuo University student and later physical education educator, Miyamoto was not only the trusted technical model for Master Egami's definitive books Karate-do: For the Specialist (1970) and Beyond Technique (1976), but also filmed the foundational 16-kata archive under Egami's direct personal guidance. His effortless rootedness and gentle humility made him a central figure in preserving orthodox Shotokai for future generations.

Read more about Master Miyamoto and his contemporaries in the Kimikagesō Masters & Disciples Dossier.