Butokukan karate
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Butokukan karate is a Japanese style of karate and is chiefly present in Washington state and British Columbia.
[edit] History
The style was first under the name of Shinpuren in 1940s Japan and was headed by Yon Pon Gun, a former student of Shito-ryu founder Kenwa Mabuni. Yoichi Nakachi studied under Yon Pon Gun for 8 years and took over from Yon Pon Gun in 1950.
Yoichi Nakachi left for Seattle, Washington in 1959 to attend college on a scholarship. He started teaching and changed the name in late 1963 to Butokukan. Nakachi taught karate at the Seattle YMCA and interacted with a then unknown Bruce Lee. Nakachi taught Lee the weapons art of nunchuku. Lee influenced Nakachi with some softer/flowing Chinese martial arts techniques.
Robert Hill is the present head of Butokukan Karate.
The butokukan open tournement in Bremerton is one of the oldest martial arts tournements on the west coast
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