Chito-ryu maintaining the link to Aragaki Seisho.
The style of Chito-ryu 千唐流 founded
by Chitose (Chinen) Tsuyoshi, is not widely known outside the island of Kyushu
and a few southern states of USA. In Canada that is a different story. Not only
is Chito-ryu very popular (due in totality to the patriarch of Canadian Karate,
Masami Tsuruoka O-sensei), but other style pioneers of Matsubayashi-ryu,
Goju-ryu, Wado-ryu, Shito-ryu and Shotokan in Canada, were black belts in this
system first, and maintain great appreciation for their original tutelage.
The system of Chito-ryu is a blend of methods and teachings
from several famous Okinawan Tote masters such as Aragaki Seisho, Higaonna
Kanryo, Hanashiro Chomo and Bojutsu master Chinen Sanda. Of particular interest
are the kata Seisan, Niseishi (Sho and Dai), Rohai (Sho, Chu and Dai) and
Sochin, preserved in an archetypal form as Aragaki taught the young boy, whom
he nicknamed Chinen Gwa. - page taken from 1965 Canadian National Karate
Championships
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