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Style
  
Te

Notable students
  
Matsumura Sokon

Died
  
July 7, 1815

Name
  
Sakugawa Kanga


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Other names
  
Sakugawa Satunushi, Tode Sakugawa

Teacher
  

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Kanga Sakugawa (佐久川 寛賀, Sakugawa Kanga, 1733 - 1815), also Sakugawa Satunushi and Tode Sakugawa, was a Ryūkyūan martial arts master and major contributor to the development of Te, the precursor to modern Karate.

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Karate-do

In 1750, Sakukawa (or Sakugawa) began his training as a student of a Ryūkyūan monk, Peichin Takahara. After six years of training, Takahara suggested that Sakugawa train under Kusanku, a Chinese master in Ch'uan Fa. Sakugawa spent six years training with Kusanku, and began to spread what he learned to Ryūkyū in 1762. He became such an expert that people gave him, as a nickname: "Tōde" Sakugawa (Sakugawa "Chinese Hand"). His most famous student, Matsumura Sōkon, went on to develop the Shuri-te which later develop into Shōrin-ryū style of karate.

References

Sakugawa Kanga Wikipedia


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