Category Archives: Dojo

Sanchin, and the “Framework of 14 Kata”

Posted on April 25, 2024 by Andreas Quast

I met Tōme San in 2012 at a larger martial arts demonstration meet held at the Prefectural Budōkan in Naha. I had met him before at the dōjō of Senaga Yoshitsune Sensei of Uechi-ryū. At the time of the martial … Continue reading →

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The first private dojo in Okinawa?

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Andreas Quast

Some time ago, I wrote about the development of the Okinawan dojo, which is at the core of modern Okinawa karate. Without dojo, there would be no Okinawa karate. Of course, this blog post is pretty limited, but it is … Continue reading →

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Development of Okinawan Dojo

Posted on July 8, 2023 by Andreas Quast

I have been digging into architecture and interior design of dojo in Okinawa and how they came about. The modern dojo is certainly a postwar invention but you can see it go back to the 1939 Butokuden, and even to … Continue reading →

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Okinawa’s original dōjō

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Andreas Quast

Previously I wrote about Okinawa’s earliest forms of community organization called Makyo. The article received only very few likes and seriously I don’t have any clue as to why this is so. Because the most important part of the article … Continue reading →

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