Shitō-ryū

200px|right|thumb|Kenwa Mabuni, the founder of Shitō-ryū Karate.

Japanese karateka, developing the style Shitō-ryū

style of karate

is a style of Karate, based on Tani-ha Shitō-ryū, a branch of Shitō-ryū developed by Chōjirō Tani in the late 1940s, and refined by his students, including Yamada Haruyoshi, Kimura Shigeru and Ishitobi Kazuo.