Also known as

Jiro Shiroma

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  Higa Yuchoku

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  Shuriway biography states Higa's first master was Jiro Shiroma, a Shuri-te specialist who trained him for six years with intense practice of kihon and kata.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  (1927–1933)

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  Shuriway biography states Higa's first master was Jiro Shiroma, a Shuri-te specialist who trained him for six years with intense practice of kihon and kata.

  “His first master was the sensei Jiro Shiroma, who was a specialist in Shuri-te, and who trained him for 6 years utilizing intense practice of Kihon and Kata as his basis [...] On the death of the master Shiroma in 1933”

  — Master Yuchoku Higa - Shorin-Ryu (Shuriway). International Shuriway Karate & Kobudo Societylink history info

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