Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Masanao Takazawa
According to the article his claim to notability is founding a martial art that his instructor named and created the katas for.  The article says the art is a "minor style of ... strain and is not widely known even in its country of birth."  Doesn't seem like much of a claim to notability and seems to fail 
— User:Astudent0, 18:55, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:MANOTE (Wikipedia:Notability)