Gichin Funakoshi books

Karate-Do: My Way of Life (1981)

This is among the best autobiographies I've come across, on all accounts. Funakoshi synthesized the karate styles of his two masters in Okinawa (where he had to learn in secret due to a government ban), and later brought his new style to mainland Japan. (The style came to be called "Shotokan" aft...