Seiunchin/Seienchin/Seiyunchin
Kata and all other spellings.
Back
in 1989 Joe Swift gave a French publication of Mabuni Kenwa’s 1934 “GOSHIN
KARATE KEMPO
Defense and Attack” and asked me to
translate it for him. Interesting because he was and is a Japanese translator,
but I had studied French for 7 years back in the 1960s. I work and worked some
more and finally finished it for him. Some time later Patrick McCarthy learned
I had done so and inquired if he could publish my translation. He did spif up
the photos a bit then published it in his groups magazine. Then in time I made
several more translations of French works for his use as he saw fit. I was
never a member of his group,
The
interesting thing is that book showed Sanchin and Seienchin Kata and the bunkai
for Seienchin. Mabuni was a friend of Miyagi and incorporated the Goju kata in
his Shito Ryu. To my knowledge this is the earliet documentation of these kata.
I am adding that translation at the end.
GOJU-RYU
SEIYUNCHIN KATA by MORIO HIGAONNA
Bunkai
Yagi
Meitetsu, Hanshi 10th-dan, performing Seiunchin kata
Seiunchin Chinen Teruo st 5:00
Goshi
Yamaguchi Goju-ryu Kata about 6:20 on the video
JKF
Seiyunchin Kata
Seienchin
_ Kata & Bunkai _ Shito Ryu Karate
Seiunchin
Kata Shimabuku Tatsuo
Ezio
Shimabuku Seiunchin (brother of Tatsuo) kata
Seiunchin
Kata - 1 of 2 -Angi Uezu -Isshinryu
Seiunchin
Isshin-ryu karate kata Uechi Tsuyoshi
Tom
Lewis in the 1970s
Charles
Murray 1980
Charles
Murray
Young
Lee Seiunchin 1989
(This was the way Tom Lewis taught me in 1974)
Young
Lee performing Seiunchin 2009
Victor
Michael and I (performing an impromptu demonstration)
More
information about Goju Ryu can be found on my blog from another translation effort. It is at :
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