From "China Hand" to "Empty Hand" http://www.takahashidojo.com/page/china_hand_empty_hand by Ray Reddy July 1996

A Brief History of Shotokan Karate

At the all-Japan athletic exhibition at Ochanomizu in 1922, a poor provincial schoolteacher from Okinawa demonstrated, by means of scrolls and photographs, a martial art known as Karate. It was Funakoshi Gichin’s second trip to Japan, and this time the seed he helped plant would grow into a Japanese budo (martial way) and spread throughout the world…

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Sensei Gichin Funakoshi http://www.takahashidojo.com/page/sensei_gichin_funakoshi June 2009

Gichin Funakoshi, the creator of Shotokan Karate, was born in Shuri, Okinawa in the year of the Meiji Restoration around 1868...

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Sensei Tomosaburo Okano http://www.takahashidojo.com/page/sensei_tomosaburo_okano June 2009

Sensei Tomosaburo Okano, the founder of Kenkojuku Shotokan Federation, was born in 1922 and was a direct student of Master Gichin Funakoshi…

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In Memoriam - A Tribute to Kenneth Hutchinson http://www.takahashidojo.com/page/tribute_to_ken by Maryellen Lo Bosco September 2003

A Tribute to Kenneth Hutchinson, 1947-2003

Kenneth (a.k.a. Ken and Kenny) Hutchinson trained with us at the Takahashi Karate Dojo, Amityville, for some eleven years and attained the rank of nidan—second degree black belt. We knew him as the not-so-young karateka who nonetheless had the boundless energy and the lean, strong body of a man in his 20s. Even better, he was the bright-eyed guy who always came bouncing into the dojo with a radiant smile on his face that matched his truly sunny disposition…

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