Karate Lineage

While doing some research for my article on Seisan, I thought it would be a good idea to keep track of student and teacher relationships so that I could get a better understanding of where influences came from. I'm a visual learner. This was a huge help in giving me a better understanding of a lot of things.

This is Version 1. The information collected here came from the following sources

• Wikipedia (which really needs to be cleaned up)
• Kata: The Folk Dances of Shotokan (Rob Redmond)
• Bubishi: The Classic Manual of Combat (Patrick McCarthy)
• Classical Kata of Okinawan Karate (Patrick McCarthy)
• Karate Do: My Way of Life (Gichin Funakoshi)
• A few websites that I am still cataloguing.

Red boxes indicate Chinese Gung-fu / Qu'an-fa influence. Green boxes indicate Kobujitsu influence.If you see anything missing, please let me know, and make sure to cite sources for your information.