SHUKO-KAI INTERNATIONAL KARATE-DO
History of Martial Arts
There are no known written records about the origins of the Martial Art known as Karate-Do. It is known however that it came to Okinawa from China.
The origins of this Chinese method of fighting is found in a discipline set by the Indian Monk Boddhi-Dharma who is also known as Da Mo in Chinese and Daruma-Taishi in Japanese.
Supreme Master Gichin Funakoshi often considered as the father of Modern Day Karate was born into a Samurai Family in 1868.
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HISTORY
History of Shito-Ryu Karate-Do
Kenwa Mabuni who had studied under both Master Yasutsune Itosu and Master Kaneryo Higaonna devised the Shito-Ryu system.
He also studied weapon techniques of the Bo, Sai, Tonfa, Kama, and Nunchaku.
Mabuni was the 17th generation son of a famous samurai named Onigusuki. The name 'Shito' is the combination of 'shi' and 'to'.
History of Shuko-Kai Karate-Do
Shuko-Kai (修交会) is a group of closely related styles of Karate, based on Tani-ha Shito-Ryu, a branch of Shito-Ryu developed by Chojiro Tani in the late 1940's.
​The founder of Shuko-Kai International Karate-Do is Sensei Kunio Miyake. Who was born in 1946. He began teaching martial arts in Japan, while at the same time teaching modern Japanese language and literature at the high school level.