Question: Facts: - teacher: kenwa mabuni - residence: japan - death date: 14 july 1992 - martial art: shito-ryu karate - birth date: 5 february 1935 - name: shogo kuniba - birth place: tokyo , japan - rank: 8th '' dan '' karate Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of shogo kuniba .
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his adoptive father -lrb- biological uncle -rrb- was kosei kokuba , who began training him at five years old .kuniba was taught by many masters of the day including : kenwa mabuni - shito-ryu karate kosei kokuba - motobu-ha karate-do itoh asakichi - judo ishii gogetsu - mugai-ryu iaido shoshin nagamine - shorin-ryu karate kenko nakaima - kobudo kosha shojin - bo and nunchaku junko yamaguchi - tonfa shioda gozo - aikido ryusei tomoyori - kenyu-ryu karate when he was 24 years old , shogo kuniba became the youngest karate system head -lrb- '' soke '' -rrb- in japan , taking over the style his adoptive father -lrb- kosei kokuba -rrb- had inherited from motobu choki .he thus became the sandai soke of ryukyu karate motobu-ha -lrb- choki motobu was shodai soke ; kosei kokuba was nidai soke -rrb- .kuniba was known for integrating the power of karate with the sensitivity of aikido and other traditional martial arts , in a style he called '' motobu-ha shito-ryu . ''this style is structured to adopt concepts and techniques from other styles to form a modern system replete with traditional values , but with an open-minded philosophy .shogo kuniba was the shodai soke of motobu-ha shito-ryu karate-do .it is sometimes referred to as kuniba-ha karate-do .a book titled '' a primer of kuniba-ha karate-do : the style of shogo kuniba '' was written and published in 1985 by james herndon ; it was republished in 2009 .at the age of 17 , kuniba started learning mugai ryu iaido from ishii gogetsu , a practitioner of mugai ryu , himself a student of nakagawa shiryo shinichi , 11th and last headmaster of mugai ryu .kuniba proceeded to practice mugai ryu for the next 40 years .however , the style of mugai ryu , as taught by ishii gogetsu and then modified by kuniba is sufficiently different from other branches of mugai ryu -lrb- mugai ryu splintered with the death of the nakagawa , so no single orthodox line exists -rrb- , that this branch of mugai ryu is commonly known as kuniba ryu .amongst the most noticeable differences...