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Okinawan Changes to Toudi
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Some notes on the changes made to Okinawan Karate and the influence of Ju Jutsu in Japanese Karate:
In the late 19th Century Karate was introduced to the Okinawan school system by Ankoh Itosu who removed many of the more dangerous aspects such as the Kyusho Jutsu (Striking specific vulnerable points) and the Tuite (the grappling aspect). It was one of Ankoh Itosu's students Gichin Funakoshi who was responsible for introducing Karate into Japan. What Gichin Funakoshi introduced as Karate to Japan had already been modified in order to suit the Okinawan Education systems physical curriculum. In Japan Karate was further modified in Japan in order to develop a physical training regime for the Japanese Education system which was appropriate for teaching a large number of people in a military manner. This is believed to be in preparation for the type of military training that Japanese males would later undertake in preparation for war in the 20th Century .
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Karate in Japan
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One of the effects of removing the grappling aspect from Karate was that after its arrival in Japan from Okinawa in the early 1920's many practitioneers of Japanese Ju Jutsu who took up Karate began to combine it with the Ju Jutsu they were already practising and this resulted in the creation of a variety of different Japanese Karate styles, such as Wado Ryu, Shindo Jinen Ryu, Shin Kage Ryu & Kukishin Ryu.
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Wado Ryu Kempo Karate Ju Jutsu
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1). Honori Ohtsuka, a Master of Shinto Yoshin Ryu Ju Jutsu whom had studied what became known as Shotokan Karate with Gichin Funakoshi and then created Japanese Karate style known Wado Ryu Kempo Karate Ju Jutsu.
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Shindo Jinen Ryu Karate Jutsu
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2). Yasuhiro Konishi who had originally studied Muso Ryu Ju Jutsu and then Takeuchi Ryu and whilst at Keio University in Tokyo became exposed to the Te of Tsuneshige Arakaki and later along with Gichin Funakoshi and Hinori Ohtsuka beacme a principal instructor at Keio University To-te club before founding Shindo Jinen Ryu karate which was later to be influenced by the visits of Chojun Miyagi (Goju Ryu), Chokki Motobu (Motobu ha Ryukyu Tode Kempo) and Kenwa Mabuni (Shito Ryu).
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Shin Kage Ryu Ju Jutsu
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3). Fumio Nagaoka, who had studied Judo and Kendo as well as a style of Shin Kage Ryu Ju Jutsu combined this knowledge with the newly imported art of Karate from Okinawa to found the Kobukan School of Shin Kage Ryu Ju Jutsu in Yokohama which included the short staff (Jo) and bladed weapons such as the knife (Tanto) and Sword (Ken) in its curriculum. According to Robin Reilly (1989:19) Fumio Nagaoka added a number of Karate kicks, strikes and punches to the Shin Kage Ryu Ju Jutsu system.
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Kukishin Ryu
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4. Kukishin Ryu is an Okinawan style of Karate that was created by Kensei Kinjo (Kinjo is an Okinawan Martial Arts Family) on mainland Japan at Osaka in 1937 by combining what Kinjo had learnt from Choshin Chibana with Goju Ryu, possibility learnt from Chojun Miyagi with Konshin Ryu Ju Jutsu from Ueshima a 7th Dan in that Ju Jutsu system. The style came back to Okinawa in 1960 (See Further Bisop 1999: 103).
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