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Originally, karate was written as 唐手 ("Tang hand" from the Chinese Tang dynasty or by extension, "Chinese hand") reflecting the Chinese influence on the style. The current way of writing means "empty hand" and karate-do thus "the way of the empty hand". Karate is most likely a mix of a Chinese fighting art brought to Okinawa by merchants and sailors from Fujian Province, with Okinawan martial art. The Okinawans called the style "te", hand. Early Okinawan styles of karate were Shuri-te, Naha-te and Tomari-te, named after the three cities in which they were formed.
In 1820, Sokon Matsumura blended the three styles of te into " Shaolin" (Chinese 少林) or " Shorin-Ryu" (in Japanese) or "Forest Style" ( EnglishThe English language is a West Germanic language, originating from England. It is the third most common "first" language (native speakers), with around 402 million people in 2002. English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the mil). However Matsumura's own students broke the style back down again into more branches and their students continued this break down adding or subtracting whatever suited them. Gichin FunakoshiGichin Funakoshi ( Funakoshi Gichin, 1868 1957) was the founder of the karate style Shotokan. He was born in Okinawa. Gichin Funakoshi was the little school teacher who brought karate from Okinawa to mainland Japan. His autobiography is called Karate-do:, a student of one of Matsumura's students Anko ItosuYasutsune Itosu best known as Anko Itosu is considered more than anyone else to be the father of modern karate. His birth is dated in various sources to 1830, 1831, or 1832, and he died in 1915. While he certainly did not invent karate himself, his codifi, was the person who introduced and popularised karate on the main islands.
Funakoshi's karate came from Itosu's version of Matsumura Shorin-ryu which is commonly called Shorei-ryuShorei-Ryu is an Okinawan Japanese Karate style brought to America by Sensei Robert Trias. Martial arts Karate.. Funakoshi's style of karate was later named ShotokanShotokan is a school of karate, reflecting the style of master Gichin Funakoshi (1868-1957), who first brought karate from Okinawa to mainland Japan. Shoto was Funakoshi's pen name for his poetry, while Shotokan was the name of the hall where "Shoto" trai by others. He was responsible for changing the way of writing the name of the art; he did this to get karate accepted by the budo organisation Dai Nippon Butokukai . In a time of rising Japanese nationalismNationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. Nationalists base nations on various notions of political legitimacy. These can derive from the Romantic theory of " cultural identity",, it was important not to make karate look foreign as the old way of writing it implied.
Karate was popularized in Japan and introduced into high schools before World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough.
Like most martial arts active in Japan, karate made its transition to karate-do at the beginning of the 20th century19th century 20th century 21st century more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901- 2000 in the sense of the Gre. The "do" in "karate-do" means "way," which is analogous to the familiar Chinese concept of tao. As it was adopted into modern Japanese culture, karate was imbued with some elements of zen buddhism, and the practice of karate is sometimes called a form of "moving zen." Classes often begin and end with brief periods of meditation. Also, the repetition of movements, as in kata, is consistent with zen meditation in that it is intended to maximize a student's composure, awareness, and physical presence (speed and power), even while under stress. Karate teachers differ greatly in the way they acknowledge - if at all - the zen influence in karate-do.
The modernization (and systemization) of karate in Japan also included the adoption of the ubiquitous white uniform ( dogi or keikogi ) and colored belt ranks, both of which were originated and popularized by Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo. Photos of early Okinawan practitioners show the masters in the street clothes of the day, or sometimes in briefs.
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