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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 115,600 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Kenwa Mabuni is the 13th most popular martial arts (down from 9th in 2019), the 582nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 521st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Martial Arts.

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  • 55.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MARTIAL ARTS

Among martial arts, Kenwa Mabuni ranks 13 out of 118. Before him are Huo Yuanjia, Linda Lee Cadwell, Choi Hong Hi, Conor McGregor, Ankō Itosu, and Masatoshi Nakayama. After him are Hélio Gracie, Chōjun Miyagi, Fedor Emelianenko, Andy Hug, Motobu Chōki, and Higaonna Kanryō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Kenwa Mabuni ranks 78. Before him are Léon Brillouin, Pavel Dybenko, Frans Masereel, Philippe Thys, John B. Kelly Sr., and Erhard Raus. After him are Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Emil Brunner, Mile Budak, Azem Galica, Karel Doorman, and Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi. Among people deceased in 1952, Kenwa Mabuni ranks 55. Before him are Princess Hilda of Nassau, Viktor Chernov, Louise d'Orléans, Bernard Lyot, Hiranuma Kiichirō, and Albert Forster. After him are Henri Winkelman, Solomiya Krushelnytska, Eli Heckscher, Władysław Strzemiński, Pierre Renoir, and Michael von Faulhaber.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kenwa Mabuni ranks 582 out of 6,048. Before him are Tokugawa Ieshige (1712), Takasugi Shinsaku (1839), Ken Kutaragi (1950), Daidō Moriyama (1938), Tadahiko Ueda (1947), and Usaburo Hidaka (null). After him are Junji Ito (1963), Shigeyoshi Suzuki (1902), Kitaro Nishida (1870), Atsushi Nakajima (1909), Eiji Tsuburaya (1901), and Masao Uchino (1934).

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Among MARTIAL ARTS In Japan

Among martial arts born in Japan, Kenwa Mabuni ranks 6. Before him are Kanō Jigorō (1860), Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Morihei Ueshiba (1883), Ankō Itosu (1831), and Masatoshi Nakayama (1913). After him are Chōjun Miyagi (1888), Motobu Chōki (1870), Higaonna Kanryō (1853), Matsumura Sōkon (1809), Hironori Ōtsuka (1892), and Morihiro Saito (1928).

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