Mabuni Ken'ei

Mabuni Ken'ei ( Japanese 摩 文 仁 賢 榮 ; born February 13, 1918 in Shuri (now Naha ), Okinawa Prefecture ; † December 19, 2015 ) was a Japanese karate master ( Shitō ryū ), 10th Dan .

Life

As the son of the founder of Shitō-ryū , Mabuni Kenwa , Mabuni Ken'ei came into contact with karate and many of its most important representatives, such as Funakoshi Gichin or Miyagi Chōjun , from childhood . After the death of his father in 1952, he became his official successor as head of Shitō-ryū. Through his intensive teaching activities, he actively contributed to the global spread of this karate style, especially abroad. For example, he spent more than a year (1969/70) in Guatemala , where he trained junior squads. Even in old age he regularly held courses in Corsica .

Mabuni Kenei endeavored to teach authentic Shitō-Ryū and to preserve it, placing particular emphasis on conveying the spiritual content of Karatedō. Without rejecting sport karate in principle, he advocated a clear separation between karate as budo and sport karate.

Among his merits is to have completed the Uechi-ryū inspired Kata Shimpā, which his father had created but not completed. Furthermore, he was the author of various books on techniques of Shitō-Ryū and a work on the historical roots and the spiritual foundations of karate as Budō.

Publications

• Kenei Mabuni: Empty Hand - On the essence of Budo karate . Palisander Verlag, 1st edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-938305-05-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Faleceu o filho do fundador do Karate Shitoryu

Web links

• Literature by and about Mabuni Ken'ei in the catalog of the German National Library
• Union Shitō ryū Europe

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Mabuni is the family name, Ken'ei the first name.