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is a karate style with roots in Shuri-te, one of the three original karate styles of Okinawa Japan. It was developed by Seiken Shukumine (1925–2001) who combined classic techniques with his own innovations thus developing the special characteristics of Genseiryū. Shukumine had two known teachers, Sadoyama and Kishimoto. The name ''Genseiryū'' was first used in 1953. In Japanese the name consists of three different characters (kanji):. The first is and means 'mysterious', 'occult', and 'universe' but also 'a subtle and deep truth'. The second is and translates to 'control', 'system', 'law' or 'rule' but also 'creating a form.' The last is which simply means 'style' or 'school.' The combination of could be translated as 'to control the universe', but is interpreted by members of the school to mean something like "to pursue the deep truth and making it clear through the form," which can be regarded physically as well as spiritually. ==History== Genseiryū has its roots in an old karate style called Shuri-te. Some sources speak of Tomari-te being the source, but the differences were minimal since both styles contributed to the development of Shōrin-ryū. In the 1920s and '30s there were three major karate styles in Okinawa. They were all named after the cities where they were developed: Naha, Tomari and Shuri. These three styles (Naha-Te, Tomari-Te and Shuri-Te) are sometimes called more generally Okinawan Karate. Matsumura "Bushi" Sōkon (1809–1898) was one of the masters of Shuri-te. His many students who later became legends of karate included Yasutsune (Ankō) Itosu. A lesser known pupil was Bushi Takemura. He developed a version of the ''kata'' (型) ''Kushanku'' that is still trained in Genseiryū and Bugeikan today. One of Takemura's pupils was Kishimoto (1862–1945, some sources speak of 1868 as birth year). He became the later teacher of Seiken Shukumine. Seiken Shukumine, born 9 December 1925 in Nago on the Japanese island of Okinawa, started at age 8 with karate lessons from Ankō Sadoyama, a grandmaster in ''koryū karate'' ("Old style/school Chinese techniques"). He trained him for four years. When Shukumine was about 14 years old, he was accepted by Kishimoto. Kishimoto was very selective: he had only nine ''kōhai'' (=pupils/students) throughout his life and also Seiken Shukumine had to insist many times, before Kishimoto decided to teach the young man. The last two students of Kishimoto actually were Seiken Shukumine and Seitoku Higa (born 1920). Another source states that Seiken Shukumine was tested before Kishimoto accepted him as a student. When Shukumine and Kishimoto met for the first time, Kishimoto took a poker and threw a piece of wooden coal with full force towards Shukumine, who evaded. Kishimoto accepted him as a student on one condition: to promise him to keep the techniques a secret. During the Second World War the 18-year-old Shukumine was drafted into the navy and had to join the ''Japanese Kamikaze Corps'' where he became a ''"kaiten"'' pilot, a one-man ship packed with explosives used in ''kamikaze'' suicide attacks against American warships. Seiken Shukumine was trained to guide this small craft through the protective maze of steel netting that was laid down in the water around the ships, to prevent them from being attacked by these ''kaiten''. He thought in a martial art way to manoeuvre between these steel nettings and tried to think of techniques to avoid enemy torpedoes. He learned that he had to work hard to penetrate the enemy's defenses, and the imagination of the martial artist in him saw how such an approach could be adapted to traditional karate to make for a more supple and dynamic form of combat. Fortunately Shukumine was never appointed for a suicide attack and he survived the war. But when he came back home he found Okinawa demolished by the bombings and his master Soko Kishomoto was killed during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Shukumine retreated in solitude for a couple of years and started to develop his karate style with in the back of his head his training as a ''kaiten'' pilot. He combined his new techniques with the classic techniques he had learned from his masters Sadoyama and Kishimoto, thus developing the special characteristics of Genseiryū. In 1949 in the town of Itō (Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan), Seiken Shukumine demonstrated publicly his karate techniques for the first time. In October 1950 Seiken Shukumine participated in a karate exhibition arranged by Nippon Television. In this demonstration also participated other masters like Hidetaka Nishiyama (of the Japan Karate Association, JKA), Yasuhiro Konishi (''Ryobukai'') Ryusho Sakagami (''Itosukai''), H. Kenjo (''Kenshukai''), Kanki Izumikawa and Shikan (Seiichi) Akamine (both of ''Gōjū-ryū''). Shukumine demonstrated a.o. the ''kata'' ''Koshokun dai'', ''Tameshiwari'' (breaking technique, in this case Shukumine broke 34 roof tiles with ''shutō'', the edge of the open hand) and ''Hachidan-tobi-geri'' (jumping kick with 8 kicks in one jump). In the early 1950s Shukumine created ''Sansai no kata'', a masterpiece of Genseiryū karate. In 1953 Shukumine started to give lessons on the Tachikawa military base to the Self-Defense Forces and for the next 10 years he gave lessons at many dojos (e.g. at universities and corporate groups) around the Tokyo area. It was in 1953 that Shukumine officially announced his techniques were ''Genseiryū'', but the year 1950 is often mentioned as the year of the beginning of Genseiryū. In 1965 Shukumine introduced a new martial art. This martial art is a further development of Genseiryū which he named ''Taidō''. Taidō is not to be regarded as karate, but as a new martial art. From that point on, Shukumine was mainly involved with Taidō and many of his pupils started to train in Taidō as well. However, some students of Taidō kept a friendly relationship with some students of Genseiryū and Shukumine was still occasionally involved with his former students, as he wished for them to join him in Taido. In 1964 Shukumine published his book ''Shin Karatedō Kyōhan'' in which he describes the basics of Ko-ryu Karate-do. Some of the ''kata'' in the book are explained thoroughly, with pictures. * ''Ten-i no Kata'' * ''Chi-i no Kata'' * ''Jin-i no Kata'' * ''Sansai'' * ''Koryū Naifanchi'' * ''Koryū Bassai'' * ''Koryū Kusanku'' There are many more ''kata'' mentioned in this book, without pictures, a total of about 44 ''kata'', including ''Taikyoku-Shodan, Tensho-no-Kata, Wankan'', etc. In the book he mentions the name ''Genseiryū'' a few times. He refer to the contents of the book as being ''koryū'' (古流), which is considered as 'old tradition' or 'old school' karate. In the book he added some kata that he created himself: ''Ten-i no Kata'' ''Chi-i no Kata'' ''Jin-i no Kata'' and ''Sansai''. In the book ''Shin Karatedō Kyōhan'' many kata and techniques and training materials are described. From the 1960s Genseiryū started to spread also outside Japan, to countries like the USA, Spain, Finland, Holland, Denmark, Australia, Brazil, India, etc. In the mid 1970s, Shukumine wrote another book which is much lesser known in the karate world than his first one. The title of this book is (translated into English) "The Karate training by complete drawing" and has about 200 pages where he describes karate techniques but also the differences between karate and judo, karate and aikido, karate and Taidō, etc. On 26 November 2001 Seiken Shukumine died of cardiac arrest, after a long sickness (since 1995). He was 75 years old and left a wife, a son and two daughters behind. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Genseiryū」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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