SECRETS OF CHINESE MASTERS – ART TO OKINAWA

The Chinese masters took the secrets of their art to Okinawa. When the Japanese invaded Okinawa Island in the seventeenth century and gradually confiscated and prohibited all fighting weapons. The Chinese methods of combat were then adapted under the name of Okinawate where “te” means “hands”. In 1903 the Japanese surprised at the physical performance of young conscripts during the “te” practice were authorized its teaching in schools. The name karate-jutsu replaced the word “te” taken from Chinese ideograms gives the meaning “art of the hands”. similarly in 1932, the emergence of a new style of karate in Japan meant something else and Chinese ideogram “Kara” meaning china was replaced by an ideogram pronounced the same but it gives the meaning “empty”.