![]() ![]() In 1924 Master Uechi moved to Wakayama, Japan where he resumed teaching in 1926.His first student in Wakayama was Ryuyu Tomoyose, who initially tried to trick Master Uechi into teaching him by making up stories of fights he had gotten into and asking him how to defend himself in these situations. He did not formally teach for a number of reasons. He taught there until 1909 when he returned to Okinawa.īack in Okinawa, Master Uechi married and began farming. Master Uechi referred to the art which he taught as Pangainoon. ![]() Uechi studied a system of martial arts based on the movements of the tiger, dragon, and crane with Shushiwa for approximately 10 years, after which time he opened his own school in the village of Nanching(Nansei) in the Fukien Province of China. He studied under Master Zhou Tzu Ho (pronounced Jo su ho) who is known in Okinawa by his Japanese name Shushiwa. Uechi left Okinawa in March of 1897 to avoid conscription into the Japanese military and began his study of the martial arts at the central temple of the Fukien Province in southern China. Uechi-Ryu Karate-Do is named after the founder, Kanbun Uechi, who was born on in Izumi, Motobu-cho, a small village in northern Okinawa.
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