Mas Oyama “The Heart of Our Karate. . .” T-shirt

This t-shirt fits like a well-loved favorite. Super soft cotton and excellent quality print makes one to fall in love with it over and over again.

Masutatsu Ōyama (大山 倍達), Ōyama Masutatsu, more commonly known as Mas Oyama, was a karate master who founded Kyokushin Karate, considered the first and most influential style of full-contact karate. Oyama’s own curriculum developed a reputation as a tough, intense, hard-hitting but practical style which was finally named Kyokushinkai (Japan Karate-Do Kyokushinkai), which means ‘the ultimate truth,’ in a ceremony in 1957. He also developed a reputation for being ‘rough’ with his students, as the training sessions were grueling and students injuring themselves in practice fighting (kumite) was quite common.