Monthly Archives: March 2013

f you happen to be around Okinawa at the time and interested in the history of Karate and Kobudō and speak Japanese…  you might want to go to the Prefectural Museum and Art Gallery in Naha Omoromachi. Matsumura Sōkon, the … Continue reading

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The Tsūkō Ichiran as described by Sakamaki Shunzo, 1963

sūkō Ichiran. The most comprehensive compilation of records concerning Ryūkyū to be produced in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) appears as the first section of a voluminous work called Tsūkō Ichiran (“Survey of Foreign Relations”). The compilation was completed in 1853 by a … Continue reading

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