Toyama Kanken – Cryptic

Some early writings on Karate-do written in Japanese were cryptic. In fact, this is at times an understatement. Whether this had to do with the non-written tradition of Karatedo or the parochial nature of the Okinawan people is unclear. To give you an example of this, Toyama (Oyadomari) Kanken wrote the following from his “Encyclopedia of […]