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What part of the islands first made karate?
Karate was developed on the island of Okinawa. It was a combination of the Okinawa wrestling and Chinese Kung Fu.
What was the first country to say karate?
Karate is a word from Okinawa. It is now a part of Japan, but at the time was an independent kingdom.
Where was Karate first created?
In the Ryukyu Islands in Okinawa, which is now a part of Japan.
Was karate first used in the military or by monks?
Probably neither would be the first to use it. Karate was developed on Okinawa and was a combination of kung fu and local wrestling.
Where was karate first held?
Karate is not held, it is practiced. The forerunners of karate were Chinese White Crane Kung Fu combined with Okinawa Te about 300 years ago.
Who was the first person to invent karate in china?
Karate did not develop in China. It was developed in Okinawa based on a combination of wrestling and Chinese Kung Fu.
What culture said karate first?
Karate comes from Okinawa. They originally translated it to mean China Hands, but today it is translated as Empty Hands.
Temple where karate was first taught in china?
Karate is not Chinese. Karate comes from Okinawa, where it was created by combining Okinawan wrestling and Chinese Kung Fu. In China, Kung Fu is said to have originated in the Shoalin Temple.
Who open the first karate school in America?
It would hard to specify, but there were numerous Okinawa immigrants that had been trained as teachers in the first two decades of the 1900's. They would have had basic instruction in karate. In April 1927 Kensu Yabu presented the first public demonstration in a YMCA in Hawaii and lectured and taught for several months.
How did karate come to America?
Karate first came to America through immigrants from Japan and Okinawa. The first recorded exhibition was in 1932 in Hawaii. Servicemen coming back after World War 2 brought knowledge of the art and helped spread the art.
What is some the information about shotokan karate?
It was derived from Shorin Ryu karate from Okinawa. It was brought there from Okinawa by Gichin Funakoshi. Shoto was his pen name that he wrote poetry under. Kan means place or house. It got its name from the first dojo, Shoto Kan, or House of Shoto.
Where in the world did karate first come from?
Karate as we know it today originated on Okinawa, an island kingdom that is now a part of Japan. The natives there had an art called Tegumi - a sort of wrestling, that they combined with White Crane Kung Fu to create karate.
