Sakugawa no Kon Koryu

Sakugawa no Kon (Koryū) is an older form of the Sakugawa kata that originated in the teachings of Yamane-ryū which trace back to the 1920s teachings of Chinen Sanda and Ōshiro Chōjo, who taught the village youth of the Kakazu area in Tomigusuku. Today it is handed down in the Shinbukan of Akamine Hiroshi Sensei in Tomigusuku, Okinawa. The video is from a performance at Tomigusuku castle ruins, close to the current Karate Taikan, in 2011. There has long been a discussion about the original contents, appearance, and performing habits of Yamane-ryū. Therefore, knowing about these older versions of Yamane-ryū kata in Shinbukan, I wanted to know more about it. This was one of several kobudō issues on my list when I moved to Okinawa in 2010 for 1 1/2 years straight. It should be bourne in mind that knowledge about the contents and performance habits of Yamane-ryū were more or less unclear to unknown, except for what was told by the modern derivates of the school