Matayoshi Shinpō

Matayoshi Shinpō ( Japanese 又 吉 眞 豊 ; * December 27, 1921 in Okinawa ; † September 7, 1997 ) was an Okinawan expert of Kobudō and karate , the son of Matayoshi Shinkō (1888-1947) and heir to the created by his father Style of Matayoshi Kobudō ( 又 吉 古 武 道 ) and Kingai-ryū Tōde Jutsu ( 金 硬 流 唐 手術 ).

Life

Matayoshi Shinpō began studying karate and Bō at the age of eight under the guidance of Kyan Chōtoku. After his father returned from his second trip to China in 1934, he learned from him other Kobudo arts (including Sai , Nunchaku , Tonfa , Kama ). In 1935 he also began to learn the style of Shōrin-ryū Ha Tsuru Ken ( 少林 流派 鶴 拳 ) - White Crane - with Go Kenki. After his father's death, he continued his work. From 1945 to 1960 he taught Kobudō in Kawasaki, Japan . He then returned to Okinawa , where he first taught in the Dōjō Shōdōkan ( 尚 道 館 ) by Higa Seikō. In 1969 he founded his own dōjō, which he called Kōdōkan - place of the enlightened path ( 光 道 館 ) - in memory of his father, whose first name Shinkō means "true light". The following year he founded the Ryūkyū Kobudō Federation (Ryūkyū Kobudō Renmei) in Naha . Matayoshi Shinpō undertook numerous demonstration and training trips to different countries. He has trained a large number of experts, including Chinen Kenyū (born 1944) and Zenei Oshiro (born 1953), two Okinawans who were born in France and have been teaching in numerous European dojo since then. Kenyu Chinen is the world's most famous Kobudo expert trained by Shinpo Matayoshi, who founded the World Oshukai Federation (WOF) and has been its chief instructor ever since. Since 1973, Matayoshi Shinpō also maintained close relationships with Roland Habersetzer , a French martial arts expert.

Web links

• World Oshukai Federation WOF
• Matayoshi-Kobudō in Germany (PDF; 1.9 MB)

literature

• Roland Habersetzer : Kobudō. Volume 1: Bō and Sai . Palisander Verlag, Chemnitz 2006, ISBN 3-938305-02-9 , presentation of basic techniques, Kumite techniques and Kata das Matayoshi-Kobudō.
• Roland Habersetzer: Kobudō. Volume 2: Nunchaku , Tonfa , Police Tonfa. Palisander Verlag, Chemnitz 2007, ISBN 978-3-938305-03-4 , Second part of the Kobudō manual based on the teachings of Matayoshi Shinpō.
• Roland Habersetzer, Gabrielle Habersetzer: Encyclopédie des Art Martiaux de l'Extrême-Orient. 4th edition. Editions Amphora, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-85180-660-2 .
• Zen Okinawa Kobudō Renmei: Ko Matayoshi Shinpō Tsuitō. (Memory for Sensei Matayoshi Shinpō). Self-published, Naha 1999.

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