![]() With the possibility that his recent connections with Chinese training might help to identify him as a draft-evader, Kanbun refused to teach. Gokenki, the Chinese tea merchant, former friend and student, often visited Okinawa on business. He soon located his friend and teacher, and tried to persuade him to teach again. Three years later, Kanbun Uechi returned to Okinawa, determined never to teach again because one of his Chinese students had killed a neighbor with an open-hand technique in a dispute over land irrigation.Īfter Kanbun's return to Okinawa, Mr. After studying 10 years under Shu Shiwa, Kanbun Uechi opened his own school in Nanjing. Kanbun Uechi studied Pangai-noon (half-hard, half-soft) under Shu Shiwa in the Fujian province of mainland China in the late 19th century and early 20th century. After his death, in 1948, the style was refined, expanded, and popularized by Kanbun Uechi's son, Kanei Uechi. ![]() Kanbun was an Okinawan who went to Fuzhou in Fujian Province, China to study martial arts and Chinese medicine when he was 19 years old. ![]() Originally called Pangai-noon which translates to English as "half-hard, half-soft", the style was renamed Uechi-ryū after the founder of the style, Kanbun Uechi. ![]() Uechi-ryū means "Style of Uechi" or "School of Uechi". Is a traditional style of Okinawan karate
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