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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:56 pm
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Footprints of Kanbun Uechi
- Replies: 28
- Views: 366765
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:33 pm
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Footprints of Kanbun Uechi
- Replies: 28
- Views: 366765
Re: The Footprints of Kanbun Uechi
I will love to see your completed research on this. I was assuming that Kanbun taught unarmed fighting techniques because Karate, what he taught, is translated into "empty hand". According to Toyama Sensei, Kanbun Sensei defined the term "karate" as meaning "sky hand",...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: 2. The Mysteries of Naha Te (C)
- Topic: 2. The Mysteries of Naha Te (C)
- Replies: 3
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Re: 2. The Mysteries of Naha Te (C)
Also, there is no justification at all in suddenly tracing Kanryo Higaonna’s Naha-te back to the South Shaolin temple, which probably never existed anyway, except in the legendary histories of the Triads and the pages of late Ching Dynasty romantic martial arts novels. Once we start tracing karate ...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Footprints of Kanbun Uechi
- Replies: 28
- Views: 366765
Re: The Footprints of Kanbun Uechi
Another question (OK, a set of related questions...): Does anyone remember when weapons were taught in the Futenma Dojo (other than using them in attacks for bunkai)? From (year) to (year)? Or learned some weapons form while training there? From whom -- Kanei Sensei himself? And why Kanei Sensei sto...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:01 am
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Footprints of Kanbun Uechi
- Replies: 28
- Views: 366765
Re: The Footprints of Kanbun Uechi
I would like to make a slight clarification, please. "It was decided at this meeting that in future, the standardized form of the word karate would be written using the combination of Chinese characters that read, “empty hand.” This was how it was currently being used by ... Kanbun Uechi ... in...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Footprints of Kanbun Uechi
- Replies: 28
- Views: 366765
Re: The Footprints of Kanbun Uechi
Erik,
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Seizan
PM for you...
Seizan
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:16 am
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Footprints of Kanbun Uechi
- Replies: 28
- Views: 366765
Re: The Footprints of Kanbun Uechi
Actually, much of my post was extracted from the rough draft of Vol. 4, section titled "Uechi Kanbun’s Farming Environment in his Youth". Included since I posted are extracts from government papers and archeological digs on Okinawa that indicate wheat and other grains have been grown here ...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Footprints of Kanbun Uechi
- Replies: 28
- Views: 366765
Re: The Footprints of Kanbun Uechi
Okinawa has grown barley, rice, and soybeans for probably hundreds of years. One reference to rice fields and paddies sets the beginnings of such agriculture around pre-1200 (Mid Shell-Mound Era). The northern part of Okinawa is mountainous but there are many flat open areas where rice paddies exist...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:13 am
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Uechi Domicile
- Replies: 8
- Views: 683
Re: The Uechi Domicile
Glenn,
Hello from Okinawa, good to hear from you.
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Seizan
Hello from Okinawa, good to hear from you.
PM in your inbox...
Seizan
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:11 am
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Uechi Family
- Replies: 6
- Views: 752
Re: The Uechi Family
Hi Glenn,
As per my response regarding the establishment of the Uechi Domicile in Nago, I do not use any information found in the Kyohon or the "Untold Story" books.
As per my response regarding the establishment of the Uechi Domicile in Nago, I do not use any information found in the Kyohon or the "Untold Story" books.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Uechi Domicile
- Replies: 8
- Views: 683
Re: The Uechi Domicile
Glenn, Good morning on Okinawa, good to hear from you! I have a few comments. To begin, I do not use any information found in the 1977 Kyohon (the original, not the popular translation), or in Mr. Fujimoto's book (I have in Japanese and English). I will say however that Mr. Garone's translation is e...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Uechi Domicile
- Replies: 8
- Views: 683
Re: The Uechi Domicile
By the way, as another example -- Nago is not on the southern part of Okinawa (Naha is). Nago is on the west coast of north-central Okinawa, tucked under the south border of Motobu. Izumi (the area where Kanbun lived through his youth) is the center area of Motobu. The geographical mistake was not i...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:21 pm
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Uechi Domicile
- Replies: 8
- Views: 683
Re: The Uechi Domicile
Thanks, Erik. I saw that, and have the source material on which Mr. Noble's history of UechiRyu is so expertly written. I admit is a good read. (The following is a Zankai point of view only, and does not imply invitation to debate...) The entirety is a lenghty version of the popular history of Uechi...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:50 am
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Uechi Domicile
- Replies: 8
- Views: 683
The Uechi Domicile
Hi Folks. Another annoying question for which the answer must be easily found ... somewhere. When Kanbun Sensei escaped Okinawa, his home was at Motobu Village (Izumi area) No. 1549 (this is recorded in a Japanese Military 1911 search notice for missing and/or dead conscription evaders). However, it...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:38 am
- Forum: Kanbun Uechi
- Topic: The Uechi Family
- Replies: 6
- Views: 752
Re: The Uechi Family
According to interviews with people who knew him directly, Kanbun Sensei could neither read not write, didn't speak Japanese well if at all, and was not fluent in any Chinese language or dialect. It is possible that his use of badly-pronounced and half-forgotten terms in Chinese (Mandarin, maybe), c...