Shogo Kuniba nacque close to the Fuji mount, in the Yamashi-Shi (Japan), 5 February 1935, in a descendent family online directed from the real dynasty okinawense Sho Shi. Iniziò its training in the martial limbs in 1940, to the age of 5 years, with its father Kokuba Kosei who in 1947 became soke of motobu- has shito ryu. Shogo Kuniba sensei could be trained with some of the greatest masters than martial limbs never you exist yourself, between which sensei Mabuni Kenwa (shito ryu), sensei Shinken Taira (taira kobudo), sensei Nagamine Shoshin (shorin ryu), sensei Itoh Asakichi (judo), sensei Shioda Gozo (aikido) and many others. Mabuni Kenwa sensei, the founder of the shito one ryu, was moved from Okinawa in order to go to living to Osaka when the young person Shogo Kuniba had only 10 years.
Mabuni sensei trained the Kuniba young person in the shito one ryu with the aid of its old friend Kokuba Kosei, the father of the Kuniba small, anch' original he of Okinawa. When Shogo Kuniba compì 12 years was promoted to the shodan from sensei Mabuni. Shogo Kuniba studied also in private - together to other very famous and coming from sensei from various martial limbs - in the house of its father, to Osaka: this became a point of "familiar" encounter for all the martial artists of the age.
In the 1943, sensei Kokuba Kosei it founded the Seishin-kan ("dojo of the pure heart"), that it would have been later on the only inheritance received from its son. After various arguments, this organization later on changed to its name in Seishin-kai ("organization of the pure heart"). In 1950, Shogo Kuniba was promoted to the nidan from part of sensei Mabuni, than later on, in 1952, the promoted ones to the sandan and it began it to train to the mugai ryu iaido, "the way of the sword", with soke Ishii Gogetsu in the city of Sakai. In the 1955 Shogo Kuniba it was promoted to yondan and divenne the vice-trainer in the city of Naha, to Okinawa, together to sensei Nagamine Shoshin.
During its permanence to Okinawa, Shogo Kuniba studied also the kobudo (arms) with "terrible" the sensei Taira Shinken and sensei Nakaima Kenko. It has learned to handle bo (the stick of the 6 ') and nunchaku (sticks joined between they) with sensei Kosha Shojin, while with sensei Yamaguchi Junko it studied tonfa (the sticks to ruotare). Soke Shogo Kuniba was the first one karateka to demonstrate techniques of kobudo of Okinawa in Japan. In 1956 it returned in its parental home to Okinawa, where it trained in the style of sensei Nagamine Shojin. In the 1957 Shogo Kuniba it published its first book on the karate ones, "Karate I give bin ran". In ` the 58 it came promoted to the rank of godan of karate motobu-has, yondan in the iaido and rokudan in the kobudo. In this period Shogo Kuniba divenne the first one manager of office (shodai jimu kyokucho) for the Nippon karate-I give rengo-kai (to Federation of all the organizations of karate-I give Japanese-Fajko).
Shogo Kuniba was one irreplaceable instrument for the formation of this organization, in the criteria of modernization for the degrees of the karateka and in order to help to develop the regulations of the tornei and the competitions. Soke Shogo Kuniba remained special councilman of the Rengo-kai until 1992, given of its trapasso. To its dead women, in 1962, Kosei Kuniba designated to the direction of motobu-has karate-gives its Shogo son. This "investitura" came rendered official from the council of the shihan of the Seishin-kai: Shogo Kuniba would have become the 3° soke for motobu- has shito ryu, which its creation was one, fruit of the mixture of the styles from learned he. To the age of 24 years, he became therefore young in its Country to obtain the title it of "soke" (head of the family) for a style of karate, a record that remains true till now. To the days ours, in Japan, are alone five old gentiluomini (or six) to perhaps maintain to the title it of soke, after are therefore insigniti from the Zen nippon karate-give renmei (Jfk). As soon as become soke, Kosho Kokuba was looked at to change the name okinawense in "Shogo" that, in Japanese characters kanji, it strongly means "guerriero". Always in Japan "Kokuba", in characters kanji, "Kuniba" is pronounced. In 1962, soke Kuniba was promoted from the Nippon karate-gives rengo-kai to the rank of rokudan (6° dan) in karate-gives, beyond that always rokudan in the iaido and nanadan (7° dan) in the kobudo.
In the 1964 soke Kuniba it was cited from the Japonica encyclopedia in an article on purpose of the karate ones and the kobudo. In 1966 it was promoted, always from the Nippon karate-I give rengo-kai, to the rank of nanadan in the karate ones and ` the 68 divenne kaicho (president) of the Seishin-kai, replacing shihan the Teruo Hayashi. In ` the 70 Shogo Kuniba soke was selected from the Nippon karate-gives rengo-kai as only carried out representative of the karate ones Japanese to "Samples to you of karate of 2a the World war" to Paris, and Kuniba soke made one demonstration in this Torneo. In ` the 73 soke Shogo Kuniba was promoted to the rank of hachidan (8° dan) in karate-gives, iaido, kobudo and goshin budo (that it is a combination of all the limbs in which soke Kuniba had been trained, as an example karate-I give, judo, aikido and ju jitsu). In ` the 76 soke Kuniba made an apparition in the Japanese documentary "Eien narubudo" ("eternal martial Limbs"). The film was shown in the USA from the Cinemax tv in 1983, with the title it "Budo: great masters of the martial limbs ", rintracciabile hour in the videoteche more supplied with the title it" Budo: great masters of the universe ".
In the 1979 "Eien narubudo" he obtained the Miami film festival award like better documentary of ` the 78. Beyond to its job in the karate ones, soke Kuniba was the first one in Japan to coreografare scenes of combat near the rinomato Toei Stagio di Kyoto, where the famous film was turned American "Shogun". For years soke Kuniba it was employed in the Toei in the garments of talent scout for film actors on the martial limbs and many of its students found with he their road in the cinematography, like Sonny Chiba, Hiroshi Miyauchi and Yasunori Kurata. In the 1983 soke Kuniba it opened the honbu dojo for the United States to Portsmouth, in Virginia, and made of the USA its main residence and its base. From Portsmouth soke Kuniba it concentrated its efforts in order to teach its style of karate in the World and, in order to make that, it travelled in many other Countries.
In the 1984 Shogo Kuniba it was promoted kudan (9° dan) in karate-I give and in goshin-I give from the Rengo kai. To that time more high to the inside of the Jkf for how much was the title it regarded the operating Japanese martial artists to outside of Japan. In `85 the soke it was cited in the Who' s who, the yearbook of the personalities, and of "the founding fathers of the martial limbs in America: soke Kuniba and the art without limits of the goshin budo ". After 1985, soke Shogo Kuniba was called near the technical committee of the Puko, a regional section of the Wuko that includes America of the north, the south and centers them. In the years succeeded it taught to you in the clinics and it gave of the demonstrations to the inside of Ozawa, the traditional torneo of karate indetto from the sensei to Las Vegas. Ozawa can be the greatest torneo than karate in all the United States. Soke Kuniba appeared in various reviews Americans and also in the French review Karate.
In Europe it was member and technical councilman of Unaak, French association of martial limbs. The 14 July 1992, around to the 2,05 of the mattino, soke Shogo Kuniba passed to better life after a hard battle against a cancer to the stomach. E' be the only battle that it has never lost! Soke Kuniba is lacked a lot to all and comes remembered every day. Soke Shogo Kuniba came invested honourably, after its trapasso, of 10° dan (judan) from the Jkf. He is one of single the five karateka to have obtained this title it, in all Okinawa and Japan.
Soke Kuniba has continued to train itself and to develop technical new until the last one.