Doshin So
| Doshin So 宗道臣 Sō Dōshin |
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| Native name | Michiomi Nakano |
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10 February 1911 Mimasaka, Okayama, Japan |
| Died | 12 May 1980 (aged 69) Tadotsu, Kagawa, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Known for | Shorinji Kempo |
Doshin So (宗道臣 Sō Dōshin?) (born Michiomi Nakano (中野道臣 Nakano Michiomi?)), was a Japanese soldier and martial artist. He is most known as the creator and founder of Shorinji Kempo and the doctrine Kongo Zen (金剛禅 Kongō Zen?). Practitioners of Shorinji Kempo refer to him as Kaiso, Japanese for "the founder".
Nakano Michiomi was born on 11 February 1911, in the Okayama Prefecture. He was the eldest in 3 siblings; his father a customs officer and his mother, a seamstress. Michiomi was 8 when his father died to alcoholism at 30. Thereafter, his sisters were sent to live with his mother's family while he was sent to Manchuria - then a puppet state of Japan - to live with his paternal grandfather, an employee in a Japanese railroad company and a member of the right-wing Black Dragon Society (黒龍会 Kokyuryūkai). His grandfather was also an expert in kendo, sōjutsu, and most likely Fusen-ryū (不遷流) jūjutsu; he often taught young Michiomi whenever he had the time.
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