Tag Archives: Motobu Udundi

On the distinction between Shuri-te and Tomari-te

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Andreas Quast

Translator’s note: The Japanese language version of this article published on the Motobu-ryū website has sparked a lot of interest among the international karate and Ryūkyū bugei community. In addition, there was a request for a translation. For this reason I translated it here with … Continue reading →

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Yari manufactured around the end of the Ryūkyū kingdom era rediscovered in a 1884 Okinawa acquisition of the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Andreas Quast

mong the everyday commodities of Okinawa are a number of tools which can be used in the martial arts. For example, equipment used in the mountains (hatchet, etc.), by fishermen (harpoon, etc.), in agriculture (hoe, etc.), or by craftsmen (plane, … Continue reading →

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