Origins Part 4
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24 Fighting Chickens :: Shotokan Karate
Origins of the Dojo Kun
When I first started reading about the Dojo Kun, I found some references to the Dojo Kun having been created by Sakugawa Tode, an Okinawa karate teacher and participant from the late 18th Century. 3
Sakugawa is credited with having been the first Okinawan having created a set of principles that one must live by while studying karate. However, I really don't find that to be very unique. The Japanese had a code of behavior called Bushi-do that they supposedly lived by as warriors.
So, if Sakugawa did invent the idea of a Dojo Kun, he was probably not unique nor the very first to ever do so.
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Japaneese History
History of Japan & China > Illustrated Lectures & Course Handouts : Images, Maps: Lawrence Kessler, History of East Asia, University of North Carolina
Selected handouts from a course on Asian history to illustrate lecture notes on Buddhism, Rise of Japan's Imperial State, Shinto, Aristocratic Japan, The Samurai in Japanese History, Tokugawa Japan (1600-1867), Japanese Feudal Society and Values, Zen Culture. The images and maps are relevant to anyone interested in the study of Japanese history.
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Japanese History Documentation Project > Introduction to Japanese History : Chris Spackman
An epic history of ancient Japan and an in depth look at the Tokugawa Period, including some fascinating interludes about Japanese art and culture. The site started several years ago as a series of articles to introduce Japanese history to visiting educators.Visitors to the site will also find an ever-changing Encyclopedia of Japanese History.
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Notes On Master Okazaki And The Origins Of Danzan Ryu
Here's some of what you'll find. Go visit the site!
At dawn on September 10, 1906, the steamship, S.S. China, docked at Honolulu. The ten-day trip from Yokohama had been uneventful. The Pacific Commercial Advertiser Daily, commenting on the China's arrival, noted that the ship carried eleven cabin passengers, the lowest in the history, 309 Japanese and 9 European immigrants in steerage.
One of the passengers in steerage was a young man named Seishiro Okazaki. Seishiro was sixteen when he arrived in Honolulu. He was the fourth son of Hanuemon Okazaki, whose family traced its roots back sixteen generations to a Samurai family. The family probably moved from Nagoya to Kakedacho some time after 1868, after the Meiji government had abolished Japan's feudal system and, in effect, the Samurai class.
When the family moved to Fukishima, they were wealthy, but Hanuemon Okazaki, Seishiro's father, was not fortunate. Several business ventures failed and by the time Seishiro was born, on January 28, 1890, the fortune that the family had once possessed was all but gone.
As soon as age permitted, Seishiro was apprenticed to a local businessman and by fifteen, plans were being made for him to leave Japan for Hawaii. this was a time of heavy Japanese migration. Hawaii was seen as the land of opportunity and the lure of new land and a new start may have been irresistible. If Okazaki's later life is any indication, it is obvious that he liked to travel, as he found new people and new places stimulating. For whatever reasons, in late August of 1906, he made his way south to the port city of Yokohama, bought a ticket on the S.S. China and on the morning of September 1, watched the Japanese coast disappear as the China steamed towards Hawaii. He would not see Japan again for eighteen years.
Okazaki arrived in the Hawaiian Islands at Honolulu. Many of the Japanese immigrants found work in the cane fields and Okazaki was no exception. He went to work for the Ewa plantation. he was not a particularly robust man. Tallish and slim, and with what was probably asthma, Okazaki did not find the hard and dusty work of the plantation appealing or healthy. He left the Ewa plantation and took a job, first with a local store, called Yoshimura's and then with Hoffschlaeger's, a local wholesale company, before he left and made his way to Maui. On Maui, Okazaki went to work for the Paia plantation, where he married.
By 1909, Okazaki had made his way to Hilo. He had spent no more than two years on Oahu and Maui. He stayed on the big island for seventeen years and it was on Hawaii that he began his martial arts training.
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Jintachi Swords
These swords are approximately 44"
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