Kentsū Yabu (屋部 憲通, Yabu Kentsū, September 23, 1866 - August 27, 1937) was a karate master in Okinawa, and was among the first people to demonstrate karate...

Kan-yu, but only passed on the Kan-yu version. He learned Jion from Kentsū Yabu and Nepai from Go Kenki. By far Higaonna Kanryō had the most profound...

19 or 20, Motobu, along with his older brother Chōyū and his friend Kentsū Yabu, began studying under Kōsaku Matsumora. He was taught by Matsumora, especially...

founder of Uechi-ryū Mitsuru Ushijima, general at the Battle of Okinawa Kentsū Yabu, martial artist prominent in Shōrin-ryū Chikako Yamashiro, filmmaker...

(Motobu-ryu) Tatsuo Shimabuku (Isshin-ryū) Kanbun Uechi (Uechi-ryū) Kentsū Yabu (teacher of Shōrin-ryū) Sai On Shō Shōken Tei Junsoku Iha Fuyū Higashionna...

students included Choyu Motobu (1857–1927), Choki Motobu (1870–1944), Kentsu Yabu (1866–1937), Chomo Hanashiro (1869–1945), Gichin Funakoshi (1868–1957)...

(c. 1890), Motobu, along with his older brother Chōyū and his friend Kentsū Yabu, began studying under Kōsaku Matsumora. He was taught by Matsumora, especially...

Zen Buddhism. On October 25, 1936, Hanashiro also participated with Kentsu Yabu, in the assembly of the "Great Masters of Okinawa Karate", where he advocated...

general at the Battle of Okinawa, during the final stages of World War II. Kentsū Yabu was a prominent teacher of Shōrin-ryū karate in Okinawa from the 1910s...

with Chomo Hanashiro, Chōtoku Kyan, Kenwa Mabuni, Choki Motobu, and Kentsu Yabu. Nakama taught karate in Shuri, Okinawa, from c. 1935 to 1982. Habersetzer...