Ōtsuka Tadahiko

Ōtsuka Tadahiko ( Japanese 大 塚 忠彦 ; born June 10, 1940 in Tokyo ; † November 27, 2012 ) was a Japanese karate master ( Gōju ryū ), 9th Dan , and master of Taijiquan (Yang style / Peking style).

Life

Tadahiko was the Kancho (Director / conductor) of the martial arts school Gōjūkensha ( 剛柔拳舎 ) and reference champion in Goju-Ryu , Naha-te and Shuri-te, direct student of Higa Yuchoko (1910-1994), of him Hanshi had appointed .

He began studying karate in Tokyo in 1955 , under the direction of Ichikawa Sosui , an expert in the Okinawan branch of Gōjū-ryū and a student of Izumigawa Kanki , who studied with Higa Seiko (1898–1966) and Toyama Kanken (1888–1966) had learned.

In 1967 Ōhtsuka Tadahiko made the acquaintance of Yang-Ming-Shi (1924-2005), who is known in Japan under the name Yo Meiji. He taught him the small form of Taijiquan , the 24 form, which is known as the Peking form, which he has since spread widely, together with his wife Ōhtsuka Kazuko, in Japan , Australia and Europe (the Japanese name for the form from Beijing is Taikyokuken). Subsequently, he had studied Ba-gua and Xing-yi with O Ju-kin (Wang Shu Chin) from Taiwan, who had spent several years in Japan.

At the age of 30 he became one of the youngest 6th Dan in Japan. In 1970, under the guidance of his teacher, Ichikawa Sosui, he founded his own organization called Gōjūkensha. The name of his martial arts school Gōjūkensha is made up of four characters 剛柔 拳 舎. Gō (剛) stands for hard, jū (柔) for soft, ken (拳) for fist and sha (舎) for place of learning.

In addition, his constant historical research on Okinawa (especially at Tokashiki Iken) and as far as the Chinese province of Fujian (where he met Taijiquan experts such as Zhu Tian Cai, Feng Zhiqiang and Chen Xiai Wang on various occasions, accompanied by his wife) led to familiarize oneself further with the text of the Bubishi , the existence of which until then had only been very confidential and vague. He also wrote the first complete translation of the Bubishi from Chinese into Japanese.

He also campaigned for the preservation and dissemination of old forms (classical kata with Chinese origins, also called "koryu kata"). These include forms such as B. Passai, Sochin, Unsu and Jitte. However, the shapes have very little with the shapes as they are today in the great Japanese styles such as B. in Shotokan are performed together. The line of transmission goes from Ohtsuka Tadahiko - Higa Yuchoko - Chibana Chōshin (Aragaki) - Itosu Ankō to Matsumura Sōkon .

Ohtsuka Tadahiko also particularly taught the Kata Happoren and Rokkishu, which he saved from being forgotten, and in Europe he passed on to his pupil the French martial arts expert Roland Habersetzer , with whose Center de Recherche Budo - Institut Tengu he had intensive relationships.

literature

• Roland Habersetzer : Bubishi - At the source of Karatedô . Palisander Verlag, 3rd, expanded edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-938305-00-3 - Bubishi interpretation based on the translation and research of Otsuka Tadahiko. With an analysis of the "32 forms of Emperor Song Taizu " by Otsuka Tadahiko.
• Roland and Gabrielle Habersetzer: Encyclopédie des Art Martiaux de l'Extrême-Orient . 4th edition. Editions Amphora, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-85180-660-2

Web links

• Homage to Ohtsuka Tadahiko , in: tengu.fr. Retrieved April 29, 2013 (French).
• Acknowledgment of Ohtsuka Tadahiko (PDF file; 1.01 MB). Retrieved April 29, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About Ohtsuka Tadahiko ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: kinshinkai.com. Retrieved April 25, 2013. 
2. ↑ Passing of a great master ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 318 kB). Retrieved April 25, 2013. 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Ōhtsuka is the family name, Tadahiko the first name.