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Kenwa Mabuni

1889 - 1952

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Kenwa Mabuni (摩文仁 賢和, Mabuni Kenwa, 14 November 1889 - 23 May 1952) was one of the first karateka to teach karate in mainland Japan and is credited as developing the style known as Shitō-ryū. Originally, he chose the name Hanko-ryu, literally "half-hard style", to imply that the style used both hard and soft techniques. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenwa Mabuni has received more than 123,882 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Kenwa Mabuni is the 12th most popular martial arts (up from 13th in 2019), the 585th most popular biography from Japan (down from 580th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Martial Arts.

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Among MARTIAL ARTS

Among martial arts, Kenwa Mabuni ranks 12 out of 179. Before him are Huo Yuanjia, Wong Fei-hung, Randy Couture, Linda Lee Cadwell, Choi Hong Hi, and Ankō Itosu. After him are Conor McGregor, Andy Hug, Chōjun Miyagi, Hélio Gracie, Masatoshi Nakayama, and Fedor Emelianenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Kenwa Mabuni ranks 77. Before him are Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, Pavel Dybenko, Frans Masereel, Ernst Niekisch, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, and Efim Bogoljubov. After him are Rezső Seress, Erhard Raus, Léon Brillouin, Imre Schlosser, Mile Budak, and Erle Stanley Gardner. Among people deceased in 1952, Kenwa Mabuni ranks 55. Before him are Luigi Fagioli, Solomiya Krushelnytska, Henri Winkelman, Sameera Moussa, Efim Bogoljubov, and Jigme Wangchuck. After him are Otto Dietrich, Yitzhak Sadeh, Louise d'Orléans, Władysław Strzemiński, Georgy Shpagin, and Vladimír Clementis.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kenwa Mabuni ranks 585 out of 6,245. Before him are Ken Takakura (1931), Kinjiro Shimizu (null), Eiji Tsuburaya (1901), Yamada Nagamasa (1590), Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1559), and Nitobe Inazō (1862). After him are Emperor Reizei (949), Hitoshi Imamura (1886), Toshio Iwatani (1925), Hirokazu Kanazawa (1931), Hakuin Ekaku (1686), and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920).

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Among MARTIAL ARTS In Japan

Among martial arts born in Japan, Kenwa Mabuni ranks 5. Before him are Kanō Jigorō (1860), Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Morihei Ueshiba (1883), and Ankō Itosu (1831). After him are Chōjun Miyagi (1888), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), Higaonna Kanryō (1853), Hironori Ōtsuka (1892), Motobu Chōki (1870), Koichi Tohei (1920), and Matsumura Sōkon (1809).

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