Kanryo higaonna biography of mahatma
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Higaonna, Kanryo (1853-1910)
Higaonna Sensei was born in Naha-Shi, Okinawa, in 1853.
In Higaonna Kanryo returned from China after years of instruction with Ryu Ryu Ko and founded what would become Naha-te.
His family lineage was one of prominence in Okinawa. However, despite their former social standing, they had become poor along with so many others that suffered the effects of Okinawa's turbulent political history. They supported themselves by transporting firewood from the Kerama Islands to Okinawa by boat.
(1 - p. 44), (3 - # 2)
Higaonna Sensei, although muscular, was not very large overall and made up for his lack in size by being lithe and quick. From his earliest years he possessed a hunger for training in the arts. He began his training at 14 years of age with an Okinawan man who had studied the Fukien style of Chinese Kenpo.
Germain could probably be considered "Europe's Greatest Adept", which is not really a Master or Mahatma because he did not have any disciples.In 1877, he achieved his dream of traveling to China to study the arts when he was granted passage onboard a ship bound for Port Foochow. (1 - p. 47), (3 - # 2)
He lived in the Okinawan settlement in Foochow for a year before finally being introduced to a local Gu