Bubishi A Close Look Redoux Part 9

More Bubushi 48 Analysis

I've been thinking on Stanic Milos (joemilos@beotel.yu), of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and the analysis of the Forty-Eight Self Defense Diagrams (from P.McCarthy's translation of the Bubushi) to his Shorin Ryu kata. He sent this to the Cyber Dojo on Friday November 5th.

Receiving his permission, I decided to have some fun and try to match his suggested kata up with what I hope are Standard Reference Texts on Okinawan Kata.

Using Shoshin Nagamine's 'The Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do', Pat McCarthy's 'Classical Kata of Okinawan Karate', George Mattson's 'Ueichiryu Karate Do', Morio Higaonna's 'Traditioinal Karatedo vol's 2 and 3', and Long and Wheeler's 'Dynamics of Isshinryu Karate', I'm going to try and pinpoint where these techniques are found in the actual kata.

Perhaps you'll ask, why is he not just using Isshinryu references as he's an Isshinryu practioner. Fair question. First I wish to honor Stanic's efforts, so I'm going to concentrate with Nagamine's text. (No, I don't know if his Shorin Ryu is the same as Nagamine's but it's the best Shorin Ryu text I posess, and I prefer to go with the best. Second, I've had occasion to participate in many different Okinawan martial traditions, and believe they all should be honnored.

The other traditions are being used when I can't see Stanic's example in Nagamine's text. That dosen't mean Stanic's wrong, but most likely using a variation I'm not aware of.

I do not think this exercise will show that the Bubushi influenced the development of these kata. It is my suspicion that's it's a greater exercise in the ability of the human mind to overlay and cross reference different material. Nothing wrong with that in my book.

This has not been an easy exercise. Many times the movement can only be inferred from the kata (for it might involve the movement from one technique to the other as well as the kata technique.

I hope you do find exception with my suggested cross references. But share your findings. Help develop a full cross reference, system by system of Bubushi links to your kata. Doing so, enables all of us to get to work and try and make it happen, instead of putting the book back on your shelf. And if we can make it happen, we might even go further and develop higher level of technique.

Stanic has used the Pat McCarthy translation of the Bubushi and the 48 Self Defense Techniques presented therein. I'm using the same text.

No Kata	Txt Page Tech. No.
4. Patsai	SN pg. 200 24-25
14. Patsai	SN pg. 204 53 or 54
19. Patsai	SN pg. 200 24 or 29
	SN pg. 201 28
22. Patsai	SN pg. 201 33-34
6. Pinan shodan	I can't find it
13. Pinan shodan	SN pg. 119 13-14
	SN pg. 118 14
43. Pinan shodan	SN pg. 120 27
33. Pinan nidan	I can't find it
39. Pinan sandan	SN pg. 131 14
46. Pinan godan	I can't find it
20. Naihanchi	SN pg. 149 10-12
31. Naihanchi	SN pg. 151 21
27. Seisan	GM pg. 273 4
	MH (vol. 3) pg. 61
	LW pg. 70
35. Seisan	GM pg. 275
	PM pg. 76 10
7. Chintou	SN pg. 227 49
	LW pg. 84 30
8. Kushanku	SN pg. 231 4
9. Kushanku	SN pg. 240 53-54
11. Kushanku	SN pg. 243 66
15. Kushanku	SN pg. 243 66
17. Kushanku	SN pg. 231
23. Kushanku	I don't see it
25. Kushanku	SN 243 66
28. Kushanku	I don't see it
28. Pinan GoDan	I don't see it
34. Kushanku	SN 238 47-48
36. Kushanku	SN 235 27
37. Kushanku	I don't see it
38. Kushanku	SN 231 4-5
42. Kushanku	SN 231 7-8
47. Kushanku	MP 124 5 or 16-17

Key to text suggestions -

SN - Shoshin Nagamine's 'The Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do'
PM - Pat McCarthy's 'Classical Kata of Okinawan Karate'
GM - George Mattson's 'Ueichiryu Karate Do'
MH - Morio Higaonna's 'Traditioinal Karatedo vol's 2 and 3'
LW - Long and Wheeler's 'Dynamics of Isshinryu Karate'

By no means do I feel this is inclusive. But I'd rather try and draw out your own efforts and suggestions.

My only intent in this effort with the Bubushi is to stimulate discussion on the topic