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A characteristic combination in old-style Sakugawa no Kon

Posted on April 11, 2024 by Andreas Quast

In the late 1920s, Miki Jisaburō of the Karate Club of Tokyo Imperial University travelled to Okinawa to meet the then-current masters and to research and record the techniques of original karate and kobudō. He published his findings in an … Continue reading →

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Sakugawa no Kon old-style

Posted on April 9, 2024 by Andreas Quast

This is my recinstruction of “Sakugawa no Kon” old-style as described by Miki Jisaburo in 1930, after learning the kata from Oshiro Chojo a year or so earlier.  If you follow closely, it is the same kata and Enbusen as … Continue reading →

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Shushi no Kon (old-style) 1 – The 1930 Description by Miki Jisaburō

Posted on February 13, 2022 by Andreas Quast

This post is my 2009 translation of “Shūshi no Kon” as published in 1930 by Miki Jisaburō. Miki had learned it from Ōshiro Chōjo in 1929. I have shortened, simplified and renumbered the description to make it easier to follow … Continue reading →

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Shirotaru no Kon (4) – Techniques of Shirotaru Deciphered

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Andreas Quast

As I noted before, Miki Jisaburō learned Shirotaru no Kon from Ōshiro Chōjo (1887–1935), who lived in Shuri Ōnaka 1-54 at the time. At that time Ōshiro served as a regular teacher as well as the head of the karate … Continue reading →

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Shirotaru no Kon (1) – Introduction and Legend of Origin

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Andreas Quast

There is an interesting bōjutsu kata called Shirotaru no Kon. Today there are quite a number and variety of different versions of this kata in existence. Most of them have more in common than not and they all share specific … Continue reading →

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Nakaima Kenkō on ‘dō’ and ‘jutsu’

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Andreas Quast

In the Japanese martial arts there is a rough categorization into martial technique (jutsu) and martial sport (dō). The difference, in a nutshell, is that the dō-variants like kendō, judō, karatedō etc. serve an educational ideal. This might be seen … Continue reading →

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Sakugawa no Kon Shō (Bojutsu Kata Series)

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Andreas Quast

Pronounced Sakuga’a nu Kun Sū/Shī in Okinawan dialect. Sakugawa no Kon is said to have been devised and handed down by Sakugawa “Tōdī” Kanga. There are many stories about the person Kanga, that he went to China for study, later became … Continue reading →

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Ufugusuku nu Kun 大城の棍 (Bojutsu Kata Series)

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Andreas Quast

Ufugusuku nu Kun is a kata said to have been devised by Ōshiro Chōjo (1887-1935) in order to teach budō at the Okinawa Prefectural Teachers‘ College (Okinawa-ken Shihan Gakkō) and the Industrial School (Kōgyō-gakkō). In the prewar years, Chōjo together … Continue reading →

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