Okinawa-kenpo is a karate style which has been developed based on ancient Okinawan martial arts called "Ti". Its technique and thought were studied and refined by a Tomari-te master, Shinkichi Kuniyoshi (also known as "BUSHI" Kuniyoshi) and passed down to Grand Master Shigeru Nakamura, the founder of Okinawa-kenpo. Grand Master Nakamura opened his own dojo "Okinawa-kenpo Karate-do Shurenjo" at Onaka, Nago city and taught his art of karate.
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In a small, rain-streaked apartment in Madrid, Elena stared at the stack of temarios on her desk. For two years, she had chased the dream of a public teaching position—highlighting, memorizing, reciting. But the PDFs blurred together, topic 47 bleeding into topic 18.
The next morning, the PDF was gone. But her story remained.
She closed the PDF. Opened a blank document. And for the first time, she wrote not what the tribunal wanted, but what she would teach if fear didn't exist.
One night, her old laptop froze on a file named . The screen flickered, and a single line of text appeared: "Tema 0: The exam you fear is the one you've already passed in another life." Elena blinked. She hadn't written that.
Then the laptop whispered—not through speakers, but directly inside her thoughts: "You don't need another outline. You need to tell your own story."
Old style karate techniques and training methods still remain in our system. We train with those methods, which are rarely seen in other Ryuha these days.
Tanren-hou (Training method)
Okinawa-sumo (traditional Okinawan wrestling)
Torite (grabbing)
Buki-jutsu (weapons)
Our techniques, from empty hands to weapons,are incorporated in a coherent system and consist of common basic skills.
Historically, Okinawa-kenpo inherited various Kata.
The following is a list of kata which are practiced at Okinawa-kenpo Karate-do, Oki-ken-kai
Karate
Weapons
In a small, rain-streaked apartment in Madrid, Elena stared at the stack of temarios on her desk. For two years, she had chased the dream of a public teaching position—highlighting, memorizing, reciting. But the PDFs blurred together, topic 47 bleeding into topic 18.
The next morning, the PDF was gone. But her story remained.
She closed the PDF. Opened a blank document. And for the first time, she wrote not what the tribunal wanted, but what she would teach if fear didn't exist.
One night, her old laptop froze on a file named . The screen flickered, and a single line of text appeared: "Tema 0: The exam you fear is the one you've already passed in another life." Elena blinked. She hadn't written that.
Then the laptop whispered—not through speakers, but directly inside her thoughts: "You don't need another outline. You need to tell your own story."
We, Okinawa-kenpo Karate-do Oki-Ken-Kai, work on in a unit called "Keiko-kai".
is a group of like-minded people to practice Okinawa-kenpo any time and anywhere.
Today, there are Keiko-kai in eight region Japan;
Shihan Yamashiro visits each Keiko-kai regularly, trains them, and conducts open seminars.



Shihan Yamashiro has been invited by masters of other styles, and conducted seminars regularly.



He started practicing karate when he was little with his father, Tatsuo Yamashiro, who inherited "Ti" from Hiroshi Miyazato.
He won 1st place at "All Okinawa Full Contact Fighting with Bogu Gear Tournament" in 1992 and 1993,
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