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| name = Shigeru Egami
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| birth_date = 1912
| birth_place = {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Fukuoka Prefecture]], [[Imperial Japan]]
| death_date = 1981
| death_place = {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Japan]]
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| martial_art = [[Shotokan]], [[Shotokai]]
| teacher = [[Funakoshi Gichin]],[[Funakoshi Gigo|Yoshitaka Funakoshi]], [[Takeshi Shimoda]]
| rank = Black belt 10th Dan
| students = [[Tetsui Murakami]]
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'''Shigeru Egami''' ([[1912]]-[[1981]]) was a student of the founder of modern [[karate]] - [[Gichin Funakoshi]]; and later the founder of the style he named [[shotokai]].
He was born in the [[Fukuoka Prefecture]] in [[1912]]. He was one of [[Gichin Funakoshi]] [[Sensei]]'s earliest students, but more than this, he was one of his most faithful and correct followers. Egami met Master Funakoshi when he was 18 years old, the moment he began studying at the famous [[Waseda University]], there he helped to establish its Karate Do Club. Before that occasion he had already practiced [[Judo]], [[Kendo]] and [[Aikido]]. He followed his Master together with [[Funakoshi Gigo|Yoshitaka Funakoshi]] and [[Takeshi Shimoda]] all around [[Japan]] staging exhibitions, trying to expand the knowledge of Karate-do as a Japanese martial art.
He was elected Member of the Evaluation Committee by Gichin Funakoshi, the youngest instructor to receive that honor. He taught Karate-Do at the Gakushuin, Toho and Chūō Universities.
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