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Chōtoku (長徳) was a ****anese era name (年号, nengō, lit. "year name")
after Shōryaku and
before Chōhō. This
period spanned the
years from
February 995 through...
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Chotoku Kyan (喜屋武 朝徳,
December 1870 – 20
September 1945) (also
spelled Chotoku Kiyan) was an
Okinawan karate master who was
famous for both his karate...
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Chōtoku Tanaka (田中 長徳,
Tanaka Chōtoku, born 1947) is a ****anese photographer. (in ****anese)
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. 328 Outstanding...
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Motobu Motobu Chōki Yabu Kentsū Chōmo
Hanashiro Funakoshi Gichin Kyan
Chōtoku Chibana Chōshin
Mabuni Kenwa Tōyama
Kanken Tatsuo Shimabuku Important kata:...
- was he took him on as a pupil. His
uncle later sent him to
study with
Chotoku Kyan to
further study karate because he
thought Tatsuo's
training was incomplete...
- a
police officer,
Nagamine received further instruction in
karate from
Chotoku Kyan and
Motobu Choki, and
achieved the
title of
Renshi in 1940. By 1951...
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parent styles.
Tatsuo Shimabuku learned Seisan from his
primary instructor,
Chotoku Kyan.
Previous to Kyan's instruction, the
Seisan form was a
staple of local...
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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...
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Chatan Yara no
Kusanku and the
Oyadamari no P****ai he
learned from
Chotoku Kyan and he
added Kusanku Sho and Dai and P****ai Sho and Dai of Yasutsune...
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prominent karate masters such as Ankō
Asato and Chōfu Kyan (father of
Chōtoku Kyan). It is
unknown if they
taught karate to the ****anese in Tokyo, although...
