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Tag Archives: Kyan Chotoku
Kyan Chōtoku book on public display at the Karate Kaikan for the first time
A panel exhibition sponsored by Okinawa Prefecture that introduces the history of Okinawa karate during the early Shōwa period (started 1926) began on April 8 in the lobby of the Okinawa Karate Kaikan Exhibition Room in Tomigusuku City. The kumite … Continue reading
Posted in Postwar Okinawa Karate, Theories of Historical Karate in Comparative Perspective, Translations, Unknown Ryukyu
Tagged Kyan Chotoku, Onna Nabe, Onna Nabī, ryūka, 恩納なべ
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Nakamura Shigeru: “Karate is also to be unified”
“Karate is also to be unified”“Unification with wearing protective gear” Nakamura Shigeru, Chairman of the Okinawa Kenpō Karate-dō Renmei Born on January 20, 1893, he entered the Karate Club of the Shuri Prefectural Middle School in Shuri at the age … Continue reading
Posted in Postwar Okinawa Karate, Translations
Tagged All Japan Karate Federation, Kuniyoshi Shinkichi, Kyan Chotoku, Miyagi Chojun, Motobu Choki, Motobu Choyu, Nakamura Shigeru, Okinawa Kenpo, Okinawa Kobudo Kyokai, old JKF, Sai Choko, Yabu Kentsu, Zen Okinawa Karate Kobudo Rengokai
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Kata Taught by Matsumura Sōkon (2)
“Karate no omoide” (My Memories of Karate) by Kyan Chōtoku was published on 1942-05-07 in the Okinawa Shinpō Newspaper. “I never forgot when I went to Shikina-en together with my father in the spring of my 16th year. My father … Continue reading
Posted in Prewar Okinawa Karate, Unknown Ryukyu
Tagged Karate no omoide, Kyan Chotoku, My Memories of Karate
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Karate no omoide (My Memories of Karate)
The article “Karate no omoide” (My Memories of Karate) is a primary source about Kyan Chōtoku’s life and his relation to karate. The article was published on 1942-05-07 in the Okinawa Shinpō Newspaper. The Okinawa Shinpō was a result of the … Continue reading
Posted in Unknown Ryukyu
Tagged Karate, Karate no omoide, Kyan Chotoku, newspaper, Okinawa, Okinawa Shimpo, Okinawa Shinpō
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Snippet on Kyan Chōfu
There is a written history from 1915* telling of the martial arts of Kyan Chōfu. It goes something like this: Kyan Chōfu distinguished himself in the bugei (martial arts) and owned an extraordinary physique. After he had moved to Tōkyō … Continue reading
How tradition really works
In my last post I raised a hypothetical question which placed Shuri-te in a somewhat unfavorable light. Of course, Shuri-te was meant in sense of Itosu Ankō’s school Karate syllabus. Today I would like to relativize and rectify this biased … Continue reading
Posted in Unknown Ryukyu
Tagged Arakaki Ankichi, China Teikichi, Ishikawa Seitoku, Kiyuna, Kyan Chotoku, Matsumura Sokon, Nagamine Shoshin, Shimabukuro Taro, Uema Joki
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Shimabukuro Eizō (*1924)
The following informations are from: Takamiyagi Shigeru, Shinzato Katsuhiko, Nakamoto Masahiro: Okinawa Karate Kobudo Jiten 2008, pp. 435-37. In 1937 Shimabukuro Eizō studied Shōrin-ryū under Kyan Chōtoku and Gōjū-ryū under founder Miyagi Chōjun. For the following 70 years he walked … Continue reading
Posted in Kyan Chotoku, Misc, Unknown Ryukyu
Tagged bogu kumite, bogu-zuki kumite, Isshin-ryu, Kyan Chotoku, Shimabuku, Shimabukuro Eizo, Shimabukuro Tatsuo, Shorin-ryu, Shorinji-ryu, Tamotsu Isamu
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Shimabukuro Zenryō (1909–1969)
Shimabukuro Zenryō (1909–1969) was born in 1909 in the Kubagawa village of Shuri. It was the same year that Uechi-ryū founder Uechi Kanbun returned from Fujian, China. It was around his secondary school years when Zenryō with sparkling eyes listened … Continue reading
Posted in Kyan Chotoku, Postwar Okinawa Karate
Tagged bogu kumite, Camp Kuwae, Iraha Kotoku, Itokazu Seiki, Kyan Chotoku, Nakama Chozo, Nakazato Joen, Shimabuku Tatsuo, Shimabukuro Zenpo, Shimabukuro Zenryo, Tomoyose Ryuko, Uechi Kanbun, Yonaha Seigyu
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Kyan Chotoku, teacher of Nagamine Shoshin.
“When in May 1942 Nagamine Shōshin opened his first dōjō in Naha’s Sōgenji district, it was the only private karate school in Naha at the time. Kyan Chōtoku, his personal teacher, came all the way from Yomitan village, together with … Continue reading
Posted in Kyan Chotoku, Misc, Unknown Ryukyu
Tagged Arakaki Ankichi, Arakaki Ansei, Kyan Chotoku, Nagamine Shoshin
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Kyan Chotoku’s wife, Kama
Posted in Kyan Chotoku, Unknown Ryukyu
Tagged Chan Migwa, Chotoku, Chōtoku Kyan, Kokan Oyadomari, Kosaku Matsumora, Kyan, Kyan Chofu, Kyan Chotoku, Matsumura Sokon, Okinawa, Okinawa Karate, Ryukyu King, Seibukan, Shorin-ryu, Shuri-te, squinty-eyed Chan, Zenryo Shimabukuro, チャンミーグヮー, 喜屋武朝徳
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