Photo (video still): a Daidokan instructor in white gi and black belt performing Kusanku Sho (Kobayashi Shorin-ryu) on a wooden dojo floor
Image: 小林流空手道協会 大道館 (Daidokan), via youtube.com

Record 114 · Kusanku / Kanku · 1922

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Kusanku Sho

小林流空手道協会 (Kobayashi-ryu Karatedo Kyokai)

“Kusanku Sho: the Kobayashi-ryu Karatedo Kyokai version.”

Kobayashi-ryu Karatedo Kyokai lists Kusanku Sho as a kata. Style: Shorin-ryu (Kobayashi line). Kata group: Kusanku / Kanku. Written クーシャンクー小. Dated 1922: name documented 1922 (Funakoshi); Itosu line via Chibana dojo 1919 (ODKS).

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Dating

name documented 1922 (Funakoshi); Itosu line via Chibana dojo 1919 (ODKS)

  • “In his 1922 “Ryukyu Kenpo Karate,” Funakoshi also lists an additional 16 kata (Funakoshi, 1922) including: an additional Passai kata (listing both Dai & Sho) and Kushanku kata (listing both Dai & Sho), Gojushiho, Chinte, Jiin, Wandau, Rohai, Jumu, Wando, Sochin, Niseishi, Sanseiru, Suparinpei, Wankan, Kokan, and Ushu.” · fightingarts.com