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.
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.
==History== Chōjirō Tani (谷 長治郎 Tani Chōjirō) was born in 1921, and started his formal karate training under Miyagi Chōjun, who founded the Gojū-ryū style, while a student at the Doshisha University in Kyoto. After a few months, Miyagi Chōjun returned to Okinawa and recommended Mabuni Kenwa, the founder of Shitō-ryū, to Tani Chōjirō to carry on his learning. Upon graduating from university, Tani began learning Naha-Te, Shuri-Te, and Tomri-Te from Mabuni as well as studied Shin-den Fudo-ryu Jujutsu, Kobudo, and Shitō-ryū from Mabuni as well. After many years of training under Mabuni and becoming one of his most senior students, In 1946 Tani received the certificate of succession from Mabuni and founded his own school called Tani-ha Shito-ryu (literally translates to "Tani school" or "Tani's branch") border|center|205x205pxTani built a Dojo attached to his house in Kobe where he proudly hung a wood carved sign above the entrance which said “Shukokai.”
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