kinjo_hiroshi

Who is Kinjo Hiroshi?

Kinjo visits Okinawa for the first time since WW2 and is met by the who's who of Karate

Kinjo Hiroshi with Gusukuma Shimpan and classmates at Okinawa's Kenritsu
Dai Ichi Chu-gakko

Kinjo Hiroshi Tokuda Ambun, Oshiro Chojo and classmates

With Nakayama Masatoshi, Yamaguchi Gogen, and Ohtsuka Hironori

With Nakayama [JKA] Yamaguchi Gogen, & Kanazawa Hirokazu, etc

At the home of
Mas Oyama,
pioneer of
Kyokushin Karate

At the home of
Mas Oyama,
pioneer of
Kyokushin Karate

Bushi Matsumura Sokon --- Itosu Ankoh Okina
Hanashiro Chomo --- Gusukuma Shimpan --- Tokuda Anbun --- Oshiro Chojo
Kinjo Hiroshi
[1919-]

The Okinawan Surname, Kinjo In Okinawa the family surname, Kinjo [also, Kaneshiro, Kanagusuku] is as common as Smith and Jones in the USA. There are and have been several well known Okinawan Bujin with the surname, Kinjo. Although there is a connection, Kinjo Hiroshi should not be confused with the following;

Kinjo [Kanagusuku] Sanda -- Ufuchiku	Kinjo Kensei	Kinjo Kami

Beiju

In May of 2007 nearly two-hundred people, from all over Japan, the Ryukyus, USA, The UK and EU, gathered in Tokyo to honour my teacher, Kinjo Hiroshi, on his 88th birthday.

Konishi Takehiro & Inoue Kisho	Yamaguchi Goshi	Ohtsuka Tadahiko	Mizuguchi san of Gekkan Karatedo	Kurt Graham	Kadekaru Toru	Joe Swift	Fujimoto san
		Darrin Johnson	Kenkyu	Mark Tankosich		Kogure san Quest Videos	Terry Wingrove

Lifetime Achievement


With the [adopted] grandson of Itosu Ankoh	Demo with Fujimoto	At the Pilot House in Yokohama with Richard Kim	At the old Butokukai	Serving the country	Presenting Kadekaru Toru with the only known photo of Itosu	At home

			Kinjo On Youtube Youtube #1 Youtube #2
Koryu-style practice	On Japan's first Karate Magazine	Still Newsworthy		Long Beach 1975

The Works of Kinjo Hiroshi

DVD	Gekkan Karate Do	Karate Taikan	Karate Narai Kata	Karate Kenpo
				Grandmaster Kinjo wrote the after thought for the recent reprint of "Karate Kenpo," by Mutsu Mizuho [See Here]