Iha Kotatsu

Also known as

Kotatsu Iha

Description

Okinawan karate master ("old master") of Tomari, Naha, who guided Shoshin Nagamine's nightly training at the Tomari Primary School grounds during his senior school year (c. 1927).

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  Nagamine Shōshin

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  Probable

  Known only from Nagamine's own autobiography (primary, single source) - he trained every night at the Tomari Primary School ground under the old master Kotatsu Iha during his senior year (c. 1927)

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

  (1927)

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  Known only from Nagamine's own autobiography (primary, single source) - he trained every night at the Tomari Primary School ground under the old master Kotatsu Iha during his senior year (c. 1927)

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  “In those days, I began, earnestly, work out every night at the ground of Tomari Primary School, under the guidance of old master, Mr. Kotatsu Iha.”

  — Nagamine, Shoshin. A Short Autobiography of Grandmaster Shoshin Nagaminelink history info

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