Okinawa Karate-Dō Shōrin-ryū Kishaba Juku, also called, familiarly, Kishaba Juku, is Chokei Kishaba's private academy of the
Matsubayashi-ryu style of
Okinawan Karate
(; ; Okinawan language, Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial arts, martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the Okinawan martial arts, indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tii'' in Okinawan) under the ...
. The Kishaba Juku was officially founded on February 1, 1998, but had been in existence as an informal karate study group since the late 1970s.
[Seigi Nakamura at the Hawaii Karate Seinenkai]
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Chokei Kishaba
was an Okinawan martial arts master and founder of the Shōrin-ryū Kishaba Juku.
He was born October 4, 1929 in Okinawa and died in the year 2000.
Kishaba's younger brother Chogi Kishaba is also an Okinawan martial arts master.
Shōrin-ry ...
, the founding Juku Cho (head of the academy),[Hikari Dojo, Hawaii]
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was an Okinawan martial arts master who founded the Shōrin-ryū Matsumura Seito Okinawa Karate Kobudo Association.
Biography
He was born May 25, 1889 (although at least one text puts his birth year as 1891) in Nishihara, Okinawa.
He was th ...
, Shoshin Nagamine
''Shoshin'' ( ja, text=初心) is a concept from Zen Buddhism meaning beginner's mind. It refers to having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when studying, even at an advanced level, just as a beginner would. The ...
and Seigi Nakamura.[Chokei Kishaba at the Hawaii Karate Seinenkai]
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Academy
After the passing of Kishaba in 2000, Katsuhiko Shinzato
is an Okinawan martial arts master and head of the Shōrin-ryū Kishaba Juku.
Life and Karate-do
Shinzato was born in Manila, in the Philippines. His father was a fisherman. During the Second World War, when the war reached the Pacific, his f ...
became the Juku Cho.[Katsuhiko Shinzato at Hawaii Karate Seinenkai.com]
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Dojos affiliated with the Kishaba Juku are located in Japan, the United States, France, Germany, Israel, and Slovenia. Within the United States there are dojos in California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Virginia.
Training methodology
The training methodology developed by the Kishaba Juku was profoundly influenced by the natural ability of Seigi Nakamura. For many years Kishaba, Shinzato and their students worked towards reverse-engineering Nakamura's natural movement. They did this because what appeared natural and effortless to Nakamura was difficult to teach and it was important to preserve that ability for posterity.
"Nakamura preferred to call the "hidden" moves "intermediary" moves, because they occur between the obvious-to-the-eye basic moves, and because they are not exotic or special, but are just a little harder to catch. The key to catching them, by the way, is to watch the koshi (pelvic carriage) and hikite (pulling hand) carefully to penetrate the sleight of hand."FightingArts.com article by George Donahue mentioning Seigi Nakamura
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The Kishaba Juku sai kata, Kishaba No Sai, was named after Kishaba and is distinct to Kishaba Juku.
Okinawan Kobudō legacy
Kishaba Juku also has a Yamane Ryu Bōjutsu
, translated from Japanese as "staff technique", is the martial art of stick fighting using a bō, which is the Japanese word for staff. Staffs have been in use for thousands of years in Asian martial arts like Silambam. Some techniques involve s ...
legacy since Kishaba's younger brother, Chogi Kishaba
, also Choji Kishaba, (1934 - October 20, 2017) was an Okinawan martial arts master and founder of the Ryukyu Bujutsu Kenkyu Doyukai (RBKD).
Kishaba's older brother, Chokei Kishaba, was also an Okinawan martial arts master.
Ryukyu Bujutsu Ke ...
, was a student of, Masami Chinen
was an Okinawan martial arts master who formed Yamani ryu. He taught Bōjutsu privately at his home in the village of Tobaru, in Shuri, Okinawa.
Life
Like many martial arts masters Chinen had been a policeman. During the Second World War he ...
, Sanda Chinen's son, and Chinen Pechin , or , historically ''Opoyakomoi'', was a rank among the Yukatchu class of the former Ryukyu Kingdom (modern-day Okinawa, Japan), above the rank of Satunushi and below the rank of Ueekata. As scholar-officials
The scholar-officials, also known ...
's grandson.[Okinawan Karate, Second Edition, by Mark Bishop, p. 120, ] Shinzato studied Bōjutsu with Chogi Kishaba.
See also
* Okinawan martial arts
References
External links
Katsuhiko Shinzato on Okinawa BBTV
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Karate
Okinawan karate
Matsubayashi