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Chōtoku (長徳) was a ****anese era name (年号, nengō, lit. "year name")
after Shōryaku and
before Chōhō. This
period spanned the
years from
February 995 through...
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Chotoku Kyan (喜屋武 朝徳,
December 1870 – 20
September 1945) (also
spelled Chotoku Kiyan) was an
Okinawan karate master who was
famous for both his karate...
- was he took him on as a pupil. His
uncle later sent him to
study with
Chotoku Kyan to
further study karate because he
thought Tatsuo's
training was incomplete...
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Motobu Motobu Chōki Yabu Kentsū Chōmo
Hanashiro Funakoshi Gichin Kyan
Chōtoku Chibana Chōshin
Mabuni Kenwa Tōyama
Kanken Tatsuo Shimabuku Important kata:...
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parent styles.
Tatsuo Shimabuku learned Seisan from his
primary instructor,
Chotoku Kyan.
Previous to Kyan's instruction, the
Seisan form was a
staple of local...
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death was
hastened by a life of
drunken dissipation. His
buddhist name was
Chōtoku-in (長得院). In 1423,
Yoshikazu was
appointed as shōgun. A year later, the...
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noted modern practitioner of the
weapon was
Seike Toma, a
student of
Chōtoku Kyan and a
teacher of
Seikichi Odo.
Differing from the
kusarigama of the...
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students of
their own, were
Choki Motobu and
Chotoku Kyan.
Matsumora is
credited as the
master who
taught Chotoku Kyan the kata
Chinto (his own version, not...
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police officer,
Nagamine received further instruction in
karate from
Chotoku Kyan and
Motobu Choki, and
achieved the
title of
Renshi in 1940. By 1951...
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officials at Tomari. Tomari-te, a
style of karate,
originated in Tomari. Kyan
Chōtoku and Chōki
Motobu practiced this
style of
Okinawan karate. Uezato, Takashi...
