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Two cute folktales
relating to karate master Kyan Chotoku sensei also known as Chan-migwa…
Below we offer a non official translation of
the narration.
Title:
Chan-mīgwā (Iramina District)
Based on the folktales by
Matsuda Nobumasa (born in 1896)
(First folktale)
Chan-mīgwā weighted
approximately 50kg, was skinny and at first sight he didn’t look strongly
built.
However, he excelled in
martial arts and was a very powerful man.
Before the war, when he
performed karate at Harayama Shobu (1) in front of the Yomitan village office,
his arms and entire body were muscle-tightened like steel.
Everyone was extremely
surprised by this superb expert.
Chan-mīgwā was a horse
carriage owner by Hīja Bridge.
Once as he went charging
rice bags on a horse carriage, carriers from Yonabaru were also present.
As Chan-mīgwā was charging
his rice bags slowly as always, the rough Yonabaru carriers got mad and told
Chan-mīgwā to “get out of the way. We are going first” and try to start
charging their rice bags first.
At that sight, Chan-mīgwā
got mad. “What are you saying?! There is an order in things. Don’t behave
selfishly!”
So saying, he start kicking
the rice bags to put them on the carriage and filled the carriage in no time.
Watching the scene, the
Yonabaru carriers realized that they were facing a man with extraordinary power
and fluttered by the amazing skills of Chan-mīgwā run away frightened as they
were.
(1) Agriculture
encouragement contests
(Second folktale starting
at 1:49)
And another story…
Chan-mīgwā was teaching
karate to the daughter of Yara Rindō
And eventually they felt in
love
.
One day, as Chan-mīgwā was
going as always to the house of the daughter
Some men came pretending
that he was trying to take away the Yara daughter and that this behavior
couldn’t be accepted.
The young men of Yara came
with sticks and altogether chased Chan-mīgwā.
Seeing this, as he was in
the vicinity of Hīja Bridge, Chan-mīgwā caught the daughter on his waist and
jump on the bridge parapet. The young men did their best to chase him but were
incapable of doing so and Chan-mīgwā run away.
Later he and the Yara Rindō
daughter became husband and wife.
As you can see, not only
being a splendid martial expert, he was a light-footed although being a small
person. One day, he escaped by jumping from one roof to the other. It is said
that this scene looked like it was a bird flying.
The end!
(The two other folktales
are not karate related so forgive us for not translating the narration.)
Extra note:
A similar episode is also introduced in the
book “Kadena Town’s pioneers” published in 1993 by the Kadena Town Board of
Education.
In
the 18-page chapter dedicated to Okinawa karate and Kyan Chōtoku is written the
following.
“Chōtoku who had
a house closed by Hīja Bridge decided to start a business of carrying goods
from the port to the Naha port’s warehouse (Tundō). As goods were carried by
horse carriage, carriers were called “Basha-muchā” or horse coach owner. The
work of a carriage owner was a very heavy labor. Therefore, most of the owners
were rough people, and most of them were big men hard to be dealt with. Among
them, owners care less of each other. On the way to Naha, while the roads were
tight, carriers would not give priority to others and this would often lead to
people fighting each other. When arriving at the warehouse, they would fight
for the order of delivering their freight. These rough men were confident in
their dexterity.”
After this explication, the same episode with the big men from Yonabaru
is introduced. However, it is said that Kyan Chōtoku charged sugar bags rather
than rice bags doing so not with his feet but using a rokushakubō staff.
Dojo TokyoMushinkan They only
bothered to translate the first chapter, which was about Kyan. The others are more
interesting in my opinion because karate stories all end up being boring
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