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| | RIKodokan Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate Main |
 | | He was heavily involved in the martial arts, and in addition to kobudo also studied Shorin ryu, his father's Kingai Ryu, what was to become Goju Ryu under Miyagi Chojun, and the white crane system of Gokenki, a Chinese tea merchant living in Naha. |
 | | It is said to be related to the Jigen Ryu, the fencing system of the Satsuma clan, which formerly ruled Okinawa, as well as to the techniques of Sakugawa Tode, one of the most famous early karate exponents. |
 | | Some karate teachers have also mastered a large body of kobudo knowledge and continue to pass it on within their dojos, and many karate teachers teach a few weapon katas that are either a part of a larger kobudo system, have been handed down outside any formal system, or were created by those teachers. |
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