Yoshizhen Funakoshi (November 10, 1868 – April 26, 1957) was born in Yamakawa Village, Shurijo Castle, Ryukyu Kingdom (now Shuriyamakawa Town, Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan), and was born into a wealthy family of the Rakyu Kingdom. During the Ryukyu Kingdom, according to local customs, his child name was "Si Gui" (Ryukyuan language: 思亀/ウミカミ), Tang name "Rong Yiren" (Ryukyuan language: Rong Yiren / ヨージニ), and his name "富名waist Yizhen" (Ryukyuan language: 富名waist Yizhen [冨名waist Yizhen] / フナクシジチン). After the Ryukyu disposition, the "Tokina waist" was changed to the homonym "Funakoshi", and "Funakoshi Yoshijin" was used as the family name.

Yoshijin Funakoshi is the founder of modern karate, the largest karate school in the world, and the first person to introduce karate from Okinawa to Japan. Because he was born prematurely, he was weak at an early age, and his family originally hoped that he would be able to enter a medical school to study medicine, but later due to the incompatibility of the conditions, he entered the Okinawa Prefecture Normal School for a year of accelerated course. At the age of twenty-one, he began his life as a teacher, and at a young age, Yoshijin Funakoshi began to learn the traditional Ryukyu martial art of Karakute (カラテ). In 1878, he was apprenticed to the famous teacher of "Shurite" Anzato Yasutsune, who was a student of the famous "Shurite" generation of Matsumura Sogo, and because Matsumura was the imperial warrior of the Ryukyu Dynasty in the past, so "Shurite" Later, it was spread among the court and the aristocracy, and Anrian Heng was the last samurai of the Ryukyu Shoshiki Dynasty at that time, and after Japan incorporated Okinawa into the territory, he moved to Tokyo in 1879 with the last king of the Shoshi Dynasty, and did not return to the Ryukyus until 1892, so it is generally presumed that Funakoshi Yoshizhen should have received further guidance from Anrian Heng after the age of twenty-four, and the "Gongxiang-kun" (Kankong) that Anriyoshi taught to Funakoshi Yoshizhen became Funakoshi's favorite set of drills later. Therefore, during the period when Anriyo Anheng left the Ryukyus, Funakoshi Yoshizhen actually learned Tang hands from Itosu Yasuhiro, who was also the successor of Matsumura Zong, and Itosu Yasuhiro can be said to be the hero of the modernization of the Ryukyu Tang Hands, and many Tang Hand celebrities came from his disciples, at that time, he and the "Naha" Higashi Na Kanra were known as the two famous Ryukyu Tang Hands, and Funakoshi Yoshizhen also continued Itosu Yasuhiro's efforts to promote the modernization of the Tang Hands.

In 1916, starting with the establishment of the Karakute course at an elementary school in Okinawa, Funakoshi participated in the "Okinawa Karatsu Study Society" held at the home of Hitokazu Mobun, which included Kentsu Yabe, Nagashige Hanajo, and Nagashun Miyagi. In 1919, at the recommendation of Kentsu Yabe, Yoshizhen Funakoshi served as the instructor of the Karatsu extracurricular physical education course at the Okinawa Prefectural Normal School, and in March 1921, Yoshizhen Funakoshi led junior high school students and students from the Normal School to perform Karatsu in front of the then Crown Prince of Japan (later Emperor Showa). In May 1922, Yoshijin Funakoshi, the president of the Okinawa Shobu Association, went to Tokyo to perform at a sports exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Culture.

In June 1923, at the invitation of the Kodokan Judo, in front of Jigoro Kano (the father of modern judo) and many judo practitioners, Yoshijin Funakoshi and Shinjin Ima, a student of Tokyo University of Commerce, dismantled and explained the martial arts of the Tang Hands. In 1924, Funakoshi Yoshizhen issued the first rank in the history of karate in the name of the chairman of the Karatsu Research Institute, Tomi Yoshijina, and the four people who were awarded the rank at that time included Mahiro Sakatani, Hiroki Otsuka, Yasuhiro Konishi, and Shinjin Ima, and in October 1924, Keio University established the Karaku Research Association.

In October 1925, Tokyo Imperial University also established the Karaku Research Society, and Funakoshi served as the Karaku Teacher, and during the period he taught in Tokyo, the "standing legislation" he taught was gradually changed from the narrower and high-profile legislation of the Ryukyu Karate, to the low-waisted legislation of Professor Shotokan, which was also a change in karate in Japan, which was a clear difference from the traditional Karakute in Okinawa. In 1929, Yoshizhen Funakoshi first proposed the idea of changing the name of Karaku to "karate" in the concept of "emptiness" in the "Prajna Heart Sutra" at the Karatsu Research Society of Keio University. It is said that another reason is that at that time, the Japanese had begun to despise foreign countries, and it was not conducive to their promotion to continue to call Tang Hands.

In 1935, Yoshizhen Funakoshi published the book "Karate Teaching Methods", and Tang Tee officially changed its name to karate. Karate has evolved into a modern sport like some other sports. Under him, he trained many famous karate masters such as: Mahiro Katagani, Majin Ima, Yasuhiro Konishi (Shinto natural flow), Takeshi Shimoda, Yoshihiro Funakoshi, Masatoshi Nakayama (JKA), Shigeru Egami, Motonobu Guangxi, Masasao Takagi, Osamu Noguchi, Choi Hongxi, and Hiroki Otsuka, who later founded "Wado-ryu". The founder of Gokuku Karate, Oyama Beida, also studied with Funakoshi for a while.

In 1936, Yoshijin Funakoshi established the first karate dojo in Tokyo and named it Shotokan. In fact, the Shotokan Ryu created by Yoshizhen Funakoshi was created by his son Yoshihiro Funakoshi and his student Hiroki Otsuka after sorting out and strengthening the karate he usually taught. Unlike Funakoshi himself, Shotokan-ryu's karate lowers the position of the hand when pushing the palm and the sword, and adds a lot of leg techniques. As for the name Shotokan, it comes from the pen name "Shoto" of Yoshijin Funakoshi, so he is also called Mr. Shoto. Because Funakoshi Yoshizhen officially changed the name of Karate to karate, this move could not be recognized by Okinawans, so Funakoshi Yoshizhen never returned to Okinawa after that.

Shotokan burned down in 1945 due to the bombing of the U.S. Army, and in 1948 the "Japan Karate Association" (JKA) was established as the core group of the disciples of Funakoshi Yoshijin, and Funakoshi served as the first generation of the top teacher, and JKA contributed to the promotion and globalization of karate competitions later, but due to the disagreement among the disciples of Funakoshi about the appropriateness of promoting free kumite competitions, the disciples led by Shigeru Egami and Motonobu Hiroshi established the "Japan Karete Shoto Association" Emphasizing the traditional method of empty-handed training and opposing kumite competitions, Funakoshi's disciples officially separated, and Funakoshi dismissed JKA from a neutral position in 1956 in the hope that the disciples could reconcile.

On the morning of April 26, 1957, Funakoshi passed away peacefully at his home in Tokyo at the age of 88. On May 10, thousands of disciples of the "Japan Katsu Association" held a grand funeral for Funakoshi. A generation of karate masters has been buried in the loess, but his significance in the history of karate is incomparably far-reaching.