摘要：The essay proposes reflections on the strategies used by Funakoshi to modernize karate in the Meiji era. The results show that by shifting the sense of karate practice to adjust it to Western values, the Master abdicated the traditional sense of budo to invest in a path of formation where symbolic death emerges as a priority. This contributed to accelerate the deconstruction of the image of the royal samurai and bushido in modernity. Funakoshi guaranteed the survival of the martial art, but opened the way for the emergence of mitigated ethics and unconventional practices in karate.
