Seisan (category Karate kata)
in Wado-Ryū (called Seishan). Isshin-ryū also adopted this kata. Korean Tang Soo Do adopted it, and it is called either by its original name Sei-Shan or...
9 KB (1,230 words) - 12:08, 30 August 2024
salute") is a kata peculiar to Chitō-ryū. There is some dispute as to the origin of this kata in the Chitō-ryū syllabus, some sources claim the kata comes from...
34 KB (3,939 words) - 21:42, 30 August 2024
the Tiger, the Dragon, and the Crane. There are eight empty-hand katas in Uechi-Ryū. Only Sanchin, Seisan, and Sanseiryū come from Pangai-noon; the others...
34 KB (4,234 words) - 02:31, 15 September 2024
kata, including one two-sword kata are found in Shintō Musō-ryū. Neither the twelve kata nor the art itself had any known name in the Shintō Musō-ryū...
49 KB (6,796 words) - 11:13, 30 August 2024
Hassei-hō or more commonly Sei-hō. These series were responsible for making understood the essential points of forms (kata) that had been transmitted...
15 KB (1,942 words) - 04:14, 19 April 2024
Genseiryū (redirect from Gensei-ryu)
truth'. The second is sei (制) and translates to 'control', 'system', 'law' or 'rule' but also 'creating a form.' The last is ryū (流, ryū) which simply means...
12 KB (1,700 words) - 05:45, 15 April 2024
Kenwa Mabuni (category Shitō-ryū)
Mabuni chose Shito-ryu, the first characters of the names Itosu and Higaonna, his two primary teachers. Funakoshi Gichin learned kata from Kenwa Mabuni:...
9 KB (1,163 words) - 19:54, 30 August 2024
of Japanese combat known as gyokushin-ryū jujutsu and Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū. The name of the art yō-sei-kan is derived from three Japanese characters...
17 KB (2,390 words) - 19:32, 9 November 2023