What was karate when Ryukyu was brought under Japanese wings

 

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Joe Swift 

Hi Victor-san, great write up. I think there is ample historical documentation to show that when Ryukyu was brought under Japanese wings that there was a LOT of economic and political aid by the Japan government, as they desperately needed Ryukyu to "join the Empire" and not try and go over to China (which had its own political and economic troubles in those times), but after Ryukyu became Okinawa Prefecture, the support kind of fizzled.

 

The 1936 meeting of the Mastersis too late, IMHO, to start looking at this, we need to actually go back at least half a century, but your argument still holds valid.

 

At this point in my studies, I believe that after Meiji, martial arts were no longer needed as such and therefore combat applications became secondary; and that before Meiji, the combat applications would have been already known and no need to "interpret" the moves at all...