Kancho's essay Back NO,4　　館長エッセイバックナンバー4 At Okinawa　沖縄にて 3.10.2013 ...................................................................HOME
沖縄県那覇市、剛柔流空手道発祥地に建つ東恩納寛量と宮城長順の顕彰碑 I visited the Naha city of Okinawa on October 3, 2013. In that case, I stopped by the commending stone monument of Kanryo Higaonna and Chojun Miyagi. Needless to say, they are initiators of Gojuryu.Three important messages from Miyagi had been carved for the other side of this monument. ①You should know the secret of Gojuryu Karate exists in Kata. 　剛柔流空手道の極意は型の中にあると知るべし ②Gojuryu Karate must expresses the harmony of nature inside human. 　剛柔流空手道は己の内に天地自然の調和を表現すべきなり ③Gojuryu Karate must pursue moral character. 　剛柔流空手道は徳の道を追求するものなり This monument had built in the birthplace of Nahate-Gojuryu. This place was called kume village in old times. The village was immigrant's　village from China in 17 century. Martial arts that they had brought from China became prototypes of Nahate-Gojuryu.
船越義珍の石碑 Commending stone monument of Funakoshi Gichin 「空手に先手なし」 「Karate ni sente nashi」(Karate does not have the preemptive strike for the self-interest. ) There is a commending stone monument of Gichin Funakoshi in another place of the Naha city, too. (right photograph)Famous maxim "Karate ni sente nashi (Karate doesn't have the preemptive strike)" of Funakoshi has been carved for this monument. After having seen those monuments, I visited the shop of a certain long-established martial arts tool. After a while, the woman who put on Karate-gi has entered the shop. She was Azusa Tomishiro who was the world champion of KATA of WKF. She left bowing when my face was seen. She seemed to have been hurrying up. If the photograph was taken with her, this essay might have become colorful, too. It was a little regrettable.
"Soki-soba" It is a top priority　noodle that you should eat in Okinawa.				Okinawa　is in the subtropics and has beautiful sea.	Syuri-jyo (Syuri castle) Palace of Ryukyu kingdom age