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Higaonna Kanryō

1853 - 1916

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Higashionna Kanryō (東恩納 寛量, Higashionna Kanryō, March 10, 1853 – October 1915), also known as Higashionna West, was a Ryukyuan martial artist who founded a fighting style known at the time as Naha-te. He is recognized as one of the first students of Fujian White Crane Kung Fu masters, namely Ryū Ryū Ko, in the Fuzhou region of China who returned with those skills to Okinawa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Higaonna Kanryō has received more than 88,651 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Higaonna Kanryō is the 19th most popular martial arts (down from 15th in 2019), the 732nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 653rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Martial Arts.

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  • 17

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Among MARTIAL ARTS

Among martial arts, Higaonna Kanryō ranks 19 out of 118. Before him are Kenwa Mabuni, Hélio Gracie, Chōjun Miyagi, Fedor Emelianenko, Andy Hug, and Motobu Chōki. After him are Matsumura Sōkon, Randy Couture, Cynthia Rothrock, Hironori Ōtsuka, Morihiro Saito, and Billy Blanks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Higaonna Kanryō ranks 48. Before him are Vladimir Kokovtsov, Damat Ferid Pasha, Sarada Devi, Ciprian Porumbescu, Francesco Filippini, and Frank Dicksee. After him are André Messager, Nikolai Kibalchich, Antonio Maura, Elihu Thomson, Teresa Carreño, and John Wesley Hardin. Among people deceased in 1916, Higaonna Kanryō ranks 76. Before him are James Connolly, Roger Casement, George Huntington, Ota Benga, Patrick Pearse, and Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky. After him are Artúr Görgei, Oskar Backlund, Ferdinand Fellner, Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, and Hugo von Pohl.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Higaonna Kanryō ranks 732 out of 6,048. Before him are Misao Tamai (1903), Shigenori Tōgō (1882), Ashikaga Yoshihisa (1465), Michio Yasuda (1949), Atsuko Ikeda (1931), and Amélie Nothomb (1967). After him are Naomi Osaka (1997), Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), Ryōkan (1758), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), Naoto Tajima (1912), and Uichiro Hatta (1903).

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Among MARTIAL ARTS In Japan

Among martial arts born in Japan, Higaonna Kanryō ranks 9. Before him are Morihei Ueshiba (1883), Ankō Itosu (1831), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), Kenwa Mabuni (1889), Chōjun Miyagi (1888), and Motobu Chōki (1870). After him are Matsumura Sōkon (1809), Hironori Ōtsuka (1892), Morihiro Saito (1928), Koichi Tohei (1920), Shoji Nishio (1927), and Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928).

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