Okinawa Prefecture Karate Museum

Okinawa Karate Museum / 沖縄県空手博物館

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Okinawa Karate Museum (Nishihara, Okinawa)
Guide: Dr. Tetsuhiro Hokama

沖縄県空手博物館 (沖縄県西原町)
案内: 外間哲弘 館長

Okinawa Karate Museum was founded in Yonagusuku, Nishihara town in January 11th, 1987. It was the first museum for karate and kobudo. I started to collect karate related material when I was at a university. The reason why I
decided to do so is because when I was to write a treatise of karate, I couldn't find enough material. People from all over the world have visited this museum.
More than 300 materials are gathered at this museum.

-- Hi. Thank you for hosting today.
Dr. Hokama: Thank you for coming.

There are a plentiful photo collection of great karate masters. There are some calligraphies of them, too. Here are kobudo weapons. This diagram shows vital spots of human body. Visitors are coming from all over the world. Some
of them left their badges and stickers here for memory. When asked, I sometimes take people on tour to guide karate related sites in Okinawa. I do calligraphy when people want me to. I calligraph the teaching quotation such as Karate ni sente nashi (There is no first strike in karate.)Back in the days, Kanpo (Chinese herbology) took essential role in medical treatment. Kanpo is a part of history of karate. Those equipments are for tanren (karate training). They are for strengthen hands, fingers, feet and legs.

Since karate was developed in Okinawa, one can see abandoned materials of karate on this island. Materials such as great masters' birthplaces,
their gravesites and monuments, so on... In my opinion, Okinawa itself is a karate museum with materials inside and outside of this building altogether.


Okinawa Karate Museum
147-2, Uehara, Nishihara Town, Okinawa
903-0125, Japan
TEL/FAX 098-945-6148
Entrance fee 200 yen
Tuesday and Saturday 6:00 -- 10:00 (Schedule may vary)
Flexible schedule with prior contact.


沖縄県空手博物館
〒903-0125 沖縄県西原町上原147-2
電話/ファックス 098-945-6148
入場料200円
原則として火・土 6:00 -- 10:00
事前連絡あれば対応可能



Special Thanks to:
Dr. Tetsuhiro Hokama / Okinawa Karate Museum


特別協力:
外間哲弘 博士 / 沖縄県空手博物館


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