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| ::Oshukai Lineage:: |
Master SAKUGAWA Kanga
1782 - 1865?
The legend says that he did several trips in China until Peking.
He also held a stick kata called : Sakugawa no kon.
1809 - 1896
It is from Sensei MATSUMURA that the Karate story becomes generally a clear way.
Sensei MATSUMURA came from a noble family and was attached as prince guard in the Shuri palace. He
received the teaching from a sabre school, then was educated in the fighting art with a Chinese master called
IWA.
Beginning the martial art practise very young, he was particularly looked up to for his strength, his courage
and his understanding.
He was the first to broadcast a fighting method and his art was called SHURITE. In his teaching, three
directions got out of this field clearly : the encyclopaedic knowledge, the mind of winner and the inner calm,
the self control.
His main disciples were Master ITOSU, Master AZATO, Master KIYAN, Master YABU.
ITOSU Anko
1830 - 1915
He was the disciple of Master MATSUMURA between 1840 and 1848.
He introduced the Okinawa-Te training in the schools of Okinawa. Master ITOSU realised that the old katas
were too complex for the pupils. In 1907, he created simplified katas, the PINAN, from the Passai katas,
Kushanku, Chinto and Jion. He also divided Naihanchi in three parts in order to simplify its study. Master
ITOSU was considered for his strength and the numerous challenges he has always won.
His main disciples were Master CHIBANA, Master FUNAKOSHI, Master MABUNI.
CHIBANA Shoshin
1885 - 1969
From 15 years old, he was the disciple of Master ITOSU until the death of him.
In 1920 he opened a dojo in Shuri, and called his style Kobayashi-Ryu which is the transcription from
Okinawa of Shaolin (school of the small forest).
In 1956, he was the first president of Renmei Karate-Do Okinawa (association which gathers the set of the
island styles).
His main disciples were Yochuku HIGA, Shuguro NAKAZATO, Katsuya MIYAHIRA.
MIYAHIRA Katsuya
1916
Disciple of Master CHIBANA, he learnt especially the katas shown by Master ITOSU.
It was Master Chôki MOTOBU who initiated him to the kumite.
Master MOTOBU was a tremendous fighting man and trained himself very often with the makiwara.
Master MIYAHIRA says: "without makiwara there is no Okinawa Karate".
Now Master CHINEN follows the teaching of Master MIYAHIRA.
The Master MIYAHIRA association is called SHIDOKAN
CHINEN Master
Willing to pass the traditional knowledge he learnt from his great Masters, Master Kenyu CHINEN stayed
in France for the first time in 1975. Then, he left definitively Japan in 1976 to live in Paris.
Now, he is 9th Dan of KARATE-DO and 8th Dan of KOBUDO, and he is following the teaching of
Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do from Master Katsuya MIYAHIRA 10th Dan. Master MIYAHIRA is himself a direct
disciple of Master CHIBANA and Master MOTOBU.
Master Kenyu CHINEN is the official representative, in Europe, for the Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do and for
Kobudo Federation from Okinawa. He has created the association called "OSHU KAI INTERNATIONAL" in
order to group all the Karate-Do and Kobudo pupils that follow his teaching.
OSHU KAI means "the school of the original techniques".
1782 - 1865?
The legend says that he did several trips in China until Peking.
He also held a stick kata called : Sakugawa no kon.
1809 - 1896
It is from Sensei MATSUMURA that the Karate story becomes generally a clear way.
Sensei MATSUMURA came from a noble family and was attached as prince guard in the Shuri palace. He
received the teaching from a sabre school, then was educated in the fighting art with a Chinese master called
IWA.
Beginning the martial art practise very young, he was particularly looked up to for his strength, his courage
and his understanding.
He was the first to broadcast a fighting method and his art was called SHURITE. In his teaching, three
directions got out of this field clearly : the encyclopaedic knowledge, the mind of winner and the inner calm,
the self control.
His main disciples were Master ITOSU, Master AZATO, Master KIYAN, Master YABU.
ITOSU Anko
1830 - 1915
He was the disciple of Master MATSUMURA between 1840 and 1848.
He introduced the Okinawa-Te training in the schools of Okinawa. Master ITOSU realised that the old katas
were too complex for the pupils. In 1907, he created simplified katas, the PINAN, from the Passai katas,
Kushanku, Chinto and Jion. He also divided Naihanchi in three parts in order to simplify its study. Master
ITOSU was considered for his strength and the numerous challenges he has always won.
His main disciples were Master CHIBANA, Master FUNAKOSHI, Master MABUNI.
CHIBANA Shoshin
1885 - 1969
From 15 years old, he was the disciple of Master ITOSU until the death of him.
In 1920 he opened a dojo in Shuri, and called his style Kobayashi-Ryu which is the transcription from
Okinawa of Shaolin (school of the small forest).
In 1956, he was the first president of Renmei Karate-Do Okinawa (association which gathers the set of the
island styles).
His main disciples were Yochuku HIGA, Shuguro NAKAZATO, Katsuya MIYAHIRA.
MIYAHIRA Katsuya
1916
Disciple of Master CHIBANA, he learnt especially the katas shown by Master ITOSU.
It was Master Chôki MOTOBU who initiated him to the kumite.
Master MOTOBU was a tremendous fighting man and trained himself very often with the makiwara.
Master MIYAHIRA says: "without makiwara there is no Okinawa Karate".
Now Master CHINEN follows the teaching of Master MIYAHIRA.
The Master MIYAHIRA association is called SHIDOKAN
CHINEN Master
Willing to pass the traditional knowledge he learnt from his great Masters, Master Kenyu CHINEN stayed
in France for the first time in 1975. Then, he left definitively Japan in 1976 to live in Paris.
Now, he is 9th Dan of KARATE-DO and 8th Dan of KOBUDO, and he is following the teaching of
Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do from Master Katsuya MIYAHIRA 10th Dan. Master MIYAHIRA is himself a direct
disciple of Master CHIBANA and Master MOTOBU.
Master Kenyu CHINEN is the official representative, in Europe, for the Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do and for
Kobudo Federation from Okinawa. He has created the association called "OSHU KAI INTERNATIONAL" in
order to group all the Karate-Do and Kobudo pupils that follow his teaching.
OSHU KAI means "the school of the original techniques".
| Master Ankoh Itosu |
| Master Shoshin Chibana |
| Katsuya Miyahira Sensei |
| Master Kenyu Chinen and his Master, the legendary Katsuya Miyahira |
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| World Oshukai Federation-International studying Center Yomitan-Okinawa |