Wer hat Kojo-ryū gegründet?

Kojo-ryū wurde von Kojo Pechin (late 17th century) gegründet.

Wo und wann entstand Kojo-ryū?

Kojo-ryū entstand in Japan (Okinawa) und datiert auf die Claimed from the late 14th century.

Was betont Kojo-ryū?

Kojo-ryū betont Methods traced to Chinese boxing, Close family transmission, A rare surviving Kume lineage.

Welche Waffen verwendet Kojo-ryū?

Kojo-ryū trainiert mit Unarmed.

Kojo-ryū, Ryūpedia

Kojo-ryū, read Kogusuku-ryū in Okinawan, is a rare family school of karate from Kume village in Naha, often named among the oldest Okinawan lineages. Its claimed descent from the Chinese families of Kume rests on family memory rather than independent record, and Ryūpedia treats its deep antiquity as claimed rather than documented.

The art of the Kojo house

Kojo-ryū (湖城流), read Kogusuku-ryū in the Okinawan tongue, is a family school of karate passed down by the Kojo of Kume village in Naha. Kume was the quarter settled by Chinese families in the service of the Ryūkyū court, and the school is often named among the oldest of the Okinawan lineages, holding closely to methods it traces to Chinese boxing.

A contested antiquity

By the family's own tradition the line reaches back to the Chinese families naturalised in Kume at the end of the fourteenth century, and was consolidated in the late seventeenth century by an ancestor remembered as Kojo Pechin. These remote origins rest on family memory rather than on independent record, and Ryūpedia treats the school's deep antiquity as claimed rather than documented.

To keep within one house what a family carried from Kume.

A rare survival

Kojo-ryū was carried into the twentieth century within the family and taught to a small number of students, and it survives today as one of the rarer Okinawan schools. Its modern history is attested in the standard surveys of Okinawan karate, even where its earliest generations cannot be verified.