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Small illustrative embusen diagram labelled Pinan Nidan

Pinan Nidan

Pinan Nidan is the second named Pinan form and a JKF Basic Kata reference for Wado-ryu.

Comparative floor-pattern diagram labelled Heian-Pinan Shodan

Pinan Shodan

Pinan Shodan is the first-named Pinan kata in several Karate traditions and is historically related to, but not universally identical with, Heian Shodan.

Illustration of a karate practitioner in a wide laterally oriented stance

Naihanchi Shodan

Naihanchi Shodan is a lateral-pattern Okinawan Karate kata related to, but not universally identical with, Shotokan Tekki Shodan.

Hironori Ōtsuka standing outdoors in a karate uniform

Hironori Ōtsuka

Hironori Ōtsuka founded Wadō-ryū by developing Karate through his prior study of Shindō Yōshin-ryū jūjutsu and Japanese budō.

Portrait of Wadō-ryū founder Hironori Ōtsuka in a white karate uniform

Wadō-ryū Karate

Wadō-ryū is a Japanese karate tradition founded by Hironori Ōtsuka, integrating Okinawan karate with principles from Shindō Yōshin-ryū jujutsu and Japanese budō.