was a Japanese martial arts master who developed and founded the Kushin-ryu style of karate in Osaka, Japan.

Karate-do

When he was three years old, he began studying Konshin-ryu Juhojutsu (

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) at Kiyotada Kahei Matsubara's academy in

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. When he was nine years old, he started the study of the karate katas

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and Kūshankū from Sugaya Ueshima, an Akō police officer who was originally from

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Konshin-ryu Juho-jutsu

In 1918, at the age of 25, Ueshima received the title of professor of Konshin-ryu juho-jutsu (Konshin-ryu jujutsu) from Matsubara and Guikyo Mazai Akada. After receiving his title, Ueshima moved to

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of ...

, where he opened the Konshin-ryu Juhojutsu (Konshin-ryu jujutsu) Academy. Several Okinawan karate teachers practiced and taught karate there. These included: *

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who taught the

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and

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style. * Kanamori "Kinsei" Kinjo who taught the styles

Shōrin-ryū Shōrin-ryū (少林流) is one of the major modern Okinawan martial arts and is one of the oldest styles of karate. It was named by Choshin Chibana in 1933, but the system itself is much older. The characters 少林, meaning "sparse" or "scant ...

and

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. *

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who founder and taught the Shōrin-ryū Kobayashi style.

Founder of Kushin-ryu

Kanamori Kinjo/Kinsei Kinjo, who taught Shōrin-ryū and Gōjū-ryū to Ueshima. In 1932, Ueshima founded the Kushin-ryu karate-do style, developed from Konshin-ryu and

karate. In 1933, the

Dai Nippon Butoku Kai ''Dai Nippon Butoku Kai'' (DNBK, ja, 大日本武徳会, en, "Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society") was a martial arts organization with strong ties to WWII-era Japanese government, originally established in 1895 in Kyoto. Following the end of ...

conferred the title of professor (kyoshi) of judo to Ueshima. In 1935, and for the first time in Japan, the

conferred the title of kyoshi to Ueshima,

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(founder of the

style), and Yasuhiro Konishi (founder of the Shindo Shizen/ Jinen style). In 1940, the

conferred the title of renshi to Kinjo. In 1946, after the end of

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, the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai was dissolved. In 1965, Ueshima received the title of 8th dan in

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. Kinjo returned to his native Okinawa, where he spread Kushin-ryu.

References

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