Chozo Nakama

{{short description|Okinawan karateka}}

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| birth_date = 1899

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| death_date = {{death year and age|1982|1899}}

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| martial_art = Shorin-ryu (Kobayashi) Karate-do

| teacher = Chosin Chibana

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{{nihongo|Chozo Nakama|名嘉真 朝増|Nakama Chōzō|extra=1899–1982}} was a Kobayashi Shorin-ryu karate-do teacher.{{Cite book |last1=Habersetzer |first1=Gabrielle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqTP18US1asC |title=Encyclopédie technique, historique, biographique et culturelle des arts martiaux de l'Extrême-Orient |last2=Habersetzer |first2=Roland |date=2004 |publisher=Editions Amphora |isbn=978-2-85180-660-4 |pages=501 |language=fr}} His primary teacher was Chosin Chibana, founder of Kobayashi Shorin-ryu; however, Nakama also studied with Chomo Hanashiro, Chōtoku Kyan, Kenwa Mabuni, Choki Motobu, and Kentsu Yabu. Nakama taught karate in Shuri, Okinawa, from c. 1935 to 1982.