Shōryaku 6, on 22 February 995. 995 (Chōtoku 1): Fujiwara no Michinaga is given the office of Udaijin. 996 (Chōtoku 2, 7th month): Michinaga become Sadaijin;...

household of Chōtoku's grandmother Manabe, the third daughter of Kyan Uēkata Chōiku. He himself studied karate under Matsumura Sōkon. Chōtoku on the other...

Motobu Motobu Chōki Yabu Kentsū Chōmo Hanashiro Funakoshi Gichin Kyan Chōtoku Chibana Chōshin Mabuni Kenwa Tōyama Kanken Tatsuo Shimabuku Important kata:...

Chōtoku Tanaka (田中 長徳, Tanaka Chōtoku, born 1947) is a Japanese photographer. (in Japanese) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. 328 Outstanding...

prominent karate masters such as Ankō Asato and Chōfu Kyan (father of Chōtoku Kyan). It is unknown if they taught karate to the Japanese in Tokyo, although...

death was hastened by a life of drunken dissipation. His buddhist name was Chōtoku-in (長得院). In 1423, Yoshikazu was appointed as shōgun. A year later, the...

Sakukawa, Annan, Iwah Notable students Ankō Asato, Ankō Itosu, Motobu Chōyū, Motobu Chōki, Kentsu Yabu, Nabe Matsumura, Chōtoku Kyan, Gichin Funakoshi...

opposite. Fujiwara no Korechika 974–1010 Fujiwara no Michitaka Lost in Chōtoku Incident to his uncle Fujiwara no Michinaga who seize the power and lost...

A noted modern practitioner of the weapon was Seike Toma, a student of Chōtoku Kyan and a teacher of Seikichi Odo. Differing from the kusarigama of the...

This bō form comes to the Isshin Ryu system from Shimabuku's time with Chōtoku Kyan. Kyan is to have learned the form either from Tokumine himself, or...