Hello,Tsuruoka Karate,is it mostly Chito-Ryu with some Shotokan mixed in, or just Shotokan? Am I wrong and its a separated style?
any help would be great thanks
Kevin
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Tsuruoka Karate?
hi Kam..
i am not personaly familiar with this style but in John Cocoran's book "the original m.a. encyclopedia..he notes....
Masami Tsuroka(1929- )
japanese -canadian pioneer. was born in Canada but moved to Japan in his early teens. he studied Chito-ryu karate under Dr. Tsuyoshi Chitose at age 17. recived shodan at age 20. after WW11 moved back to Toronto Canada.
as for Master Tsuyoshi Chitose he was the founder of Chito-ryu having learned shotokan from the founder Gichin Funakoshi. goju-ryu under the founder chojun Miyagi. shorin-ryu under Choki motobu. all karate legends.
nowhere in anything i read mentions if Mr. Tsuroka added to what he himself learned from his teacher.
hope that helps
Hoshin (steve)
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i am not personaly familiar with this style but in John Cocoran's book "the original m.a. encyclopedia..he notes....
Masami Tsuroka(1929- )
japanese -canadian pioneer. was born in Canada but moved to Japan in his early teens. he studied Chito-ryu karate under Dr. Tsuyoshi Chitose at age 17. recived shodan at age 20. after WW11 moved back to Toronto Canada.
as for Master Tsuyoshi Chitose he was the founder of Chito-ryu having learned shotokan from the founder Gichin Funakoshi. goju-ryu under the founder chojun Miyagi. shorin-ryu under Choki motobu. all karate legends.
nowhere in anything i read mentions if Mr. Tsuroka added to what he himself learned from his teacher.
hope that helps
Hoshin (steve)
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Tsuruoka Karate?
Hello,
Although not a practitioner of either Shotokan or Chito-ryu myself, I have researched enough historical references regarding Chito-ryu's founder, Tsuyoshi Chitose to provide links to a website with information about Masami Tsuruoka. This is his federation website.
http://www.interlog.com/~brat/tkf/
Masami Tsuruoka's primary teacher was Tsuyoshi Chitose and he may well have trained with Gichin Funakoshi as well as others. However, it is unlikely that he ever met or trained with Choki Motobu who passed away in 1944.
In 1946, karate in Japan was still unorganized and Chitose Sensei and Kanken Toyama revived the Zen Nippon Karate-Do Renmei in the efforts to unify karate training and set grading standards. Funakoshi, Kenwa Mabuni, Seiko Higa and Gogen Yamaguchi were all leaders in this organization for various periods of time.
Funakoshi passed away in 1956 and Chitose sensei and he were life-long friends. Chitose helped to teach Funakoshi's students when they first moved to the mainland in the 1920s. I understand that Funakoshi made frequent trips to Kumamoto City in Kyushu to visit Chitose. I think that I recall that he sat on the examination board when Chitose sensei tested William Dometrich for shodan.
The word choice in Cochrane's book is somewhat misleading. If my math is correct, Tsuruoka would have been 17 years old in 1946 and this is certainly after WWII. So Tsuruoka didn't begin training with Chitose sensei until after the war. He returned to Canada in 1956 after receiving a nidan ranking according to his own biography. Tsuruoka sensei introduced Chito-ryu to Cananda when he opened his first school in 1957.
He founded the Tsuruoka Karate Federation in 1995. I'm unsure of his reason for founded his own organization. However, he is still highly regarded and respected by many Chito-ryu practitioners.
Best regards,
Dale Knepp
Although not a practitioner of either Shotokan or Chito-ryu myself, I have researched enough historical references regarding Chito-ryu's founder, Tsuyoshi Chitose to provide links to a website with information about Masami Tsuruoka. This is his federation website.
http://www.interlog.com/~brat/tkf/
Masami Tsuruoka's primary teacher was Tsuyoshi Chitose and he may well have trained with Gichin Funakoshi as well as others. However, it is unlikely that he ever met or trained with Choki Motobu who passed away in 1944.
In 1946, karate in Japan was still unorganized and Chitose Sensei and Kanken Toyama revived the Zen Nippon Karate-Do Renmei in the efforts to unify karate training and set grading standards. Funakoshi, Kenwa Mabuni, Seiko Higa and Gogen Yamaguchi were all leaders in this organization for various periods of time.
Funakoshi passed away in 1956 and Chitose sensei and he were life-long friends. Chitose helped to teach Funakoshi's students when they first moved to the mainland in the 1920s. I understand that Funakoshi made frequent trips to Kumamoto City in Kyushu to visit Chitose. I think that I recall that he sat on the examination board when Chitose sensei tested William Dometrich for shodan.
The word choice in Cochrane's book is somewhat misleading. If my math is correct, Tsuruoka would have been 17 years old in 1946 and this is certainly after WWII. So Tsuruoka didn't begin training with Chitose sensei until after the war. He returned to Canada in 1956 after receiving a nidan ranking according to his own biography. Tsuruoka sensei introduced Chito-ryu to Cananda when he opened his first school in 1957.
He founded the Tsuruoka Karate Federation in 1995. I'm unsure of his reason for founded his own organization. However, he is still highly regarded and respected by many Chito-ryu practitioners.
Best regards,
Dale Knepp
