Қарате стилі: Генсейрю және оның тарихы

Style of karate

Genseiryū (玄制流) is a style of Karate founded by Seiken Shukumine (1925 2001). With Genseiryū, Shukumine combined classic Shuri te techniques with his own innovations thus developing the special characteristics unique to the style. However, Shukimine would eventually come to realize the shortcomings of this system and served as foundation to Shukimine's much more well known style, Taido.

The name Genseiryū was first used in 1953. In Japanese the name consists of three different characters (kanji):玄制流. The first is gen (玄) and means 'mysterious', 'occult', and 'universe' but also 'a subtle and deep truth'. The second is sei (制) and translates to 'control', 'system', 'law' or 'rule' but also 'creating a form.' The last is ryū (流) which simply means 'style' or 'school.' The combination of gensei (玄制) could be translated as 'to control the universe', but is interpreted by members of the school to mean something like "to pursue the deep truth and making it clear through the form," which can be regarded physically as well as spiritually.

Throughout the years, a few students of Seiken Shukumine rejected Taido and thus continued Genseiryū even though Shukumine stopped teaching Genseiryū in 1965. Although Seiken Shukumine left Genseiryū in 1965, his students have kept on his teaching. Butokukai, which was established three years prior to Seiken Shukumine's exit from the Karate world, was continued by Kunihiko Tosa. The oldest organization of Genseiryū still existing today is that of the Genseiryū Karate do International Federation (1959).