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Kenwa Mabuni (摩文仁 賢和,
Mabuni Kenwa, 14
November 1889 - 23 May 1952) was one of the
first karateka to
teach karate in
mainland ****an and is
credited as...
- ****ō-ryū (糸東流) is a form of
karate that was
founded in 1934 by
Kenwa Mabuni (摩文仁 賢和,
Mabuni Kenwa). ****ō-ryū is
synthesis of the
Okinawan Shuri-te and Naha-te...
- Kentsū Chōmo
Hanashiro Funakoshi Gichin Kyan Chōtoku
Chibana Chōshin
Mabuni Kenwa Tōyama
Kanken Tatsuo Shimabuku Important kata:
Naihanchi sanchin (shuri...
- also
influenced by ****o-Ryu, with
Hironori Ōt****
being taught by both
Kenwa Mabuni and
Gichin Funakoshi. The name Wadō-ryū has
three parts: Wa, dō,...
- (1888–1966),
Shinpan Shiroma (Gusukuma) (1890–1954),
Anbun Tokuda (1886–1945),
Kenwa Mabuni (1889–1952), and Chōshin
Chibana (1885–1969). In
October 1908, Itosu...
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influential masters of what came to be
called karate,
amongst them Chōjun Miyagi,
Kenwa Mabuni,
Kyoda Shigehatsu, Koki Shiroma, Higa Seiko,
Tsuyoshi Chitose and...
- ****ō-ryū
style also
contains many
elements of Shōrei-ryū,
since Mabuni Kenwa was a
student of Higaonna, and even the Shōtōkan
style contains kata from...
- from it. In his book Kobo
Kenpo Karatedo Nyumon, ****ō-ryū
karate master Kenwa Mabuni wrote that when kata
change direction, the
angle turned to does not...
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instructor in Funakoshi's school. He also
trained under Chōki
Motobu and
Kenwa Mabuni, and
studied kobudo,
around this time. Ōt****
began to have philosophical...
- Chōyū,
Motobu Chōki, Yabu Kentsū,
Hanashiro Chōmo,
Gichin Funakoshi and
Kenwa Mabuni.
Itosu is
sometimes referred to as "the
Grandfather of
Modern Karate...
