Ryukyu Kobudo information

Ryukyu Kobudo is the branch of Okinawan Kobudo developed and systemized by Taira Shinken under the Ryukyu Kobudo Hozon Shinko Kai association. Ryukyu...

1994, he formed his own kobudo organization, the Ryukyu Dento Kobujutsu Budo Hozon Budo Kyokai in order to pass on his own kobudo consisting of Yamanni-ryu...

Renseikai Ryukyu Kobudo shureikan: Shusei Maeshiro (in association with Tsuneo Shimabukuro) Mikio Nishiuchi: International Okinawa Kobudo Association...

instructor. In 1929, Taira began his studies of Ryūkyū kobudō under Moden Yabiku. In 1932 after studying kobudō for three years and karate for 10 years, he...

has an extensive background in Largo Mano Eskrima, Hindiandi Gung Fu, Ryukyu Kobudo and Combat Judo. He is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps who...

fears of the widespread teaching of the art of deception. Tō-te and Ryukyu kobudō (deception) continued to be taught in secret. The ban was continued...

techniques, and Kobudo katas mostly of the Ryukyu Kobudo lineages. Shian Toma opened his dojo in 1960 teaching Shorin Ryu and Kobudo to the local populace...

Prefecture. Okinawa was ruled by the Ryukyu Kingdom from 1429 and unofficially annexed by Japan after the Invasion of Ryukyu in 1609. Okinawa was officially...

Shinpo created the Ryukyu Kobudo Federation in 1970, which would be renamed in 1972 the "Zen Okinawa Kobudo Renmei" (All Okinawa Kobudo Federation). Matayoshi...

some of Ryukyu's military campaigns. Ryukyuan ships continued to officially operate until 1875. The origins of karate (Okinawan: tii), kobudō, and tegumi...

Konishi and Taira Shinken where he studied the weapons practice of Ryūkyū Kobudo Hozon Shinkokai. Inoue went on to found his own style of karate called...

committee-member for the Okinawan Karatedo and Kobudo Federation, vice-president of the Ryukyu Kobudo Ryu Kon Kai Association, chief committee-member...

development of karate and kobudo, especially with respect to bōjutsu. Pechin (親雲上, Peechin) is social class of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. A resident of the...

The surujin or suruchin is one of the traditional weapons of Okinawan Kobudo. It comprises a 150 -152 cm or 2-3(4,921 feet -4,986 feet or 6,5 feet -9.8feet)...

[kaɽati]), also karate-do (空手道, Karate-dō), is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called...

(ユカッチュ, 良人), also known as Samuree (サムレー), were the aristocracy of the Ryukyu Kingdom. The scholar-bureaucrats of classical Chinese studies living in...

the Ryukyu Kingdom nor as an Okinawan practice. Until the time of Yabiku Mōden (屋比久 孟伝, 1878-1941), and Taira Shinken (平 信賢, 1897–1970), Kobudo as we...

"world walker" in Japanese, was a karateka. He combined kobudō and karate techniques to found the Ryūkyū Hon Kenpo Kobujutsu Federation. Of pechin descent,...

in Okinawan karate, Matayoshio is perhaps best known for his practice of Kobudo. He started a dojo in the 1960s in memory of his father and called it the...

November 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Conversations with Devorah Yoshiko Dometrich, president of Ryukyu Kobudo Hozon Shinkokai USA. Pechin v t e...