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in Shuri 1919, Kinjo Hiroshi startet training in Todi in 1926.That is 85 years
ago if I am not mistaken! EIGHTY-FIFE!!!! I believe… This man is so cool, he
even has his own Homepage!
Kinjo Sensei has trained under Hanashiro
Chomo, Chinen Sanda, Oshiro Choyo, Tokuda Anbun, Maeshiro Chotoku, Okuzato
Shogen… That is, many direct students of Itosu Anko and some of the most
important Bojutsu teachers of the era. I wouldn’t raise an eyebrow if
he had trained under Chuck Norris, too.
In 1939 he was awarded the instructors
diploma by Toyama Kanken of Shudokan fame.
And… in 1948 he was conferred to by Mabuni Kenwa “Itosu’s Ten Maxims” of
Karate, handwriting by Itosu Anko himself.
In 1950 he established the Zen Nihon
Karate-do Kenshukai (under the name Otomokai), still in existance today. In the
Kanbukan Karate Dojo in Tokyo (founded 1945) from early on he expermimented
with protectors and largely contributed to the first protector Karate
championship in Japan in 1954. With the experience of having studied under a
large nummber of Karate and Kobudo experts, he was an energetic author for some
60 years now.
In 1959, together with influential karate man
Konishi Yasuhiro, he became vice president of (the old) All Japan Karate
Federation. Taught Karate at Yamanashi University, Ibaraki University, Shibaura
technical college, and the Aritomokan.
That all was 50-something years ago. And
recently, in 2011, he retired from his post as main instructor of his Zen
Nihon Karate-do Kenshukai.
Meanwhile, he wrote a huge amount of
research-based articles and books. And it was Kinjo who found the
famous picture identified as Itosu Anko, like 100 years after the latter
had left this world.
I also have NO IDEA how he evaded being
ranked like 10th Dan by like every Karate federation o this planet. I mean
really, it’s arithmetics. For what reason for god’s sake would anybody
deserve a 10th Dan when this guy here has “only” a 9th? The only reason might
be that he said no.
Today I received Kinjō Hiroshi’s latest
masterpiece, “From Karate (Todi) to Karate”. I didn’t work out much of it yet,
but here’s the content, probably translated and published for the 1st time ever
into English.
Kinjō Hiroshi: Tōde kara Karate made (From Tōdī to
Karate). Nihon Budōkan, Bēsubōru Magajin-sha, Tōkyō 2011. 439 pp. 20cm. ISBN:
9784583104294.
Follow link
for the Nihon Budokan Webite.
Cover
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter I: Resolving questions regarding “Tōdi”
1. Chinese martial arts are the continuous
origin of “Tōdī”
What is “Tōdi”
2. Terminology for describing Tōdi
The “terminus technicus ‘Karate’” and its terminology in the Okinawan
dialect
3. From what reason was there the framework
of fourteen Kata?
The “Tōdī” that was invented for the purpose of school education
problematic issues with Karate as an education
4. The framework of fourteen Kata of “Tōdī”
The fourteen Kata of “Tōdī”
Itosu’s Ten Maxims
Chapter II: Concerning (disputes on) the Chinese martial
arts (Chūgoku Kenpō)
1. About the names of the Kata What is
Karate, and where should it lead?
The History of Karate
The problem with thinking of the Ryūha
Research on the names (designations) of important Kata
Looking at the perspective and mind-set of Karate-do in articles from
about half a century ago
The intention of partly reprinting my theory from my serial publication
“North and South”
Associations and reminiscences originated from the characters Pinan
(Heian)
2. Chinese martial arts the Shaolin temple
Chinese martial arts with its history of thousands of years
3. Classification and bird’s-eye view of the
Chinese martial arts
Southern fist and northern leg
4. Evaluation criteria of the Kata
competition (tournament, bout, contest) in China
Chapter III: The History of Ryūkyū-Chinese relations
1. Ryūkyū and China, and then Japan
Beginning of the relationship between Ryūkyū and China
The tributary relationship of China and Ryūkyū
2. From the triangular position of Sanzan to
the unity of the kingdom
The Chinese Kaiki becomes minister of the country Ryūkyū
3. China and the 2nd Royal Line of the Shō
Family
The 2nd Shō Family, last royal line of the Ryukyu Kingdom
The History of friendly relations between Japan and Ryūkyū
From Chinese martial art to “Tī”
The Satsuma invasion of Ryukyu
4. The transmission of Chinese martial art About
the periodization of “Old Ryūkyū”
Concerning “Ryūkyū Kenpō”
The acceptance (reception) of Chinese martial arts (Tōdī)
Looking at Chinese martial arts in the “Ōshima Hikki”
Shed light on “Tōdī” Sakugawa
The Royal Navy’s “The Voyage to the Korea and the Ryūkyū Islands”
Kenpō from a picture drawn in the “Nantō Zatsuwa”
The Relationship between the Sanshin of Ryūkyū and the Sanshin of Amami
Ōshima
5. The existence of Tōdī described in the
document “Program of various arts together with three six nine”
Chapter IV: Matsumura Sōkon, breathes new life into Tī
1. Matsumura Sōkon, spearhead
(standard-bearer) of Suidī
Matsumura Sōkon’s Suidī
Matsumura Sōkon’s idea of man
Matsumura Sōkon’s spirit and technique of Suidī
The rare talent Arakaki An’kichi’s “Rotation Ball”
2. The consistency of Suidī built by
Matsumura
The four Kata discovered by Matsumura
The path to “Tori-te” as the origin of the Kata of Tī
3. The reconstruction of “Kata” to/as an
effective practical skill
The outer form of the four Kata
The sixteen techniques (skills) developed (or deployed) in the four Kata
Chapter V: From Suidī to Tōdī
1. The History of Okinawa until the birth of
“Tōdī”
The approximately forty years from Hanseki Bōkan to the birth of “Tōdī”
Particulars on why the abolition of the feudal domains and establishment
of prefectures in Ryūkyū was delayed by eight years compared to Japan proper
[1871]
2. Okinawa’s national characteristics
projected on the history of “Tōdī”
What does it mean for the completion of the “Karate”
Already in the closing years of the Meiji era the designation of
“Karate” was seen
3. The historical context of the creation of
“Tōdī”
“Tōdī” and the educational system after the abolition of the feudal
domains and establishment of prefecture
An article on “Karate” was published in the Ryūkyū Shimpō newspaper
The episode until the invention of the Pinan Kata
4. Instruction in “Karate” before its
adoption into school education
The route from “Suidī” to “Tōdī”
Search for the order of operations leading through [the process] from
“Suidī” (“Shuri-te”) to “Tōdī”
How did the technique of “Suidī” become “Tōdī”?
Chapter VI: From “Tōdī” to “Karate”
1. The background of the period of “Itosu’s
Ten Maxims” and its points of contact with Itosu Ankō’s ideological
background
The Honourable tenets
“Tōdī’s” course towards confusion while becoming popular
The departure of the founder of “Tōdī”, Itosu Ankō, toward his journey
2. “Tōdī” crossing the sea to the mainland
Tokuda Antei’s Memorandum
Concerning (the disputes of) Funakoshi Gichin’s going to Tōkyō
The “Outline of Kenpō”
About the “Twenty Articles of Karate”
3. In the range between Educational Tōdī and
Budō Tōdī
Concerning educational Tōdī
The turn towards a compulsory junior high school Budō from the year 2012
4. From Tōdi to Karate, by whose hand was it
renamed?
The Tōdī Symposium
Looking back on the Tōdī Symposium
Epilogue: Karate’s way to go
Postscript
Bibliography
Chronology
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