Karate's Generations

This is my new approach to viewing karate history. I hope other karate enthusiasts like it!

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Bibliography:
Okinawan Karate, Mark Bishop.
A Short History of Goju Ryu (剛柔流), Robert Dyson.
The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts, Raul Sanchez Garcia.
Analysis of Genuine Karate, Hermann Bayer.
Analysis of Genuine Karate 2, Hermann Bayer.
Karate Jutsu, Simon Keegan.
Generations:
www.pewresearch.org/politics/2015/09/03/the-whys-a…
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/01/17/where-m…
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/22/how-pew…
mccrindle.com.au/article/topic/demographics/the-ge…
guides.loc.gov/consumer-research/market-segments/g…

Jiyu Kumite in Funakoshi’s university clubs: medium.com/@motobu715/kumite-of-tokyo-imperial-uni… and medium.com/@motobu715/repercussions-of-yabu-kents%…
Funakoshi’s expulsion of Otsuka: medium.com/@motobu715/the-conflict-between-funakos…
Gen. MacArthur’s influence on karate: www.military.com/history/how-gen-douglas-macarthur…
Shotokan’s split after Funakoshi’s death: www.westhoustonshotokan.com/shotokan-shotokai--jka…
Development of sport karate in the US: www.backkicks.com/history-of-modern-sport-karate/
WUKO/WKF and IAKF: wuko.net/about-tbm/, www.itkf.org/history.php, and shotokai.com/wuko/
Registering karate as an UNESCO cultural heritage: okinawakarate-unesco.jp/en/about/ and okic.okinawa/en/archives/news/p46188
Okinawa Prefecture promoting karate: english.ryukyushimpo.jp/2016/02/20/24553/, www.pref.okinawa.jp/kensei/kencho/1000011/1017729/…, www.odks.jp/en/
Okinawa Gov. Tamaki Denny practices Uechi-Ryu (article about Okinawa Karate World Tournament): ryukyushimpo.jp/news/entry-1560937.html
Image/Video Attributions:
船越義珍(Funakoshi Gichin), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
karatehistorique.wordpress.com/tag/dai-nippon-buto…
yamada-san.blogspot.com/2008/02/meeting-of-okinawa…
www.kassiskarate.com.au/style/history-kenwa-mabuni… - Mabuni Kenwa in protectors
Gaetano Faillace, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons – Gen. MacArthur and Hirohito
HistoryTuan, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons – Otsuka Hironori
日本スポーツ出版社, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons – Oyama Masutatsu lifting weights
the-martial-way.com/sanchin-three-battles-of-kyoku…
karatebushido.com/deces-de-m-j-delcourt/
Pete Souza, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons – Sasakawa Ryoichi and Ronald Reagan
Pnuao, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons – Sasakawa Ryoichi
www.kwunion.com/interesting/uchi-deshi-life-in-jap…
Griffelkin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons – Matsui Shokei
kyokushinkarate.news/en/kyokushin-karate-federatio… Nishida and Midori
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