House of Japan

BUDO, THE CODE OF BUSHIDO, ARCHERY, CALIGRAPHY, JUDO, AIKIDO, KARATE, SUMO, KENDO, IIAIDO, KATA, WEAPONS.

KATA, is the essence of all what we do in karate, BUNKAI is the application of ones technique

When performing Kata the judges must see power, speed, and purpose of ones movement. 

IIAIDO, The drawing of the sword is a process of mastery practice in motion, to see a master of the sword draw and defend himself with kantana {long sword} or short sword {wakisahi} is poetry in a cherry blossom world.

Here are the families OF IIAIDO {more info}

THE INTRODUCTION TO SHOTOKAN KARATE to the world in 1922 by Gician Funakoshi

In the sixties you had the hard fighters American heroes of sport karate men like Mike Stone, Chuck Norris, Bob Wall, J Pat Burleson and the very quiet heroes only the great ones knew about guys like Ken Knusdon, Bill Wallace, Glenn Keeney and one of my favorites FRANK SMITH .the Japanese fighters have always thought that they were the best at fighting but Mr. Smith not only beat the best fighters consistently in state and world competition, with that still talked about technique front kick reverse punch that broke so many ribs, he was so brutal and so controversial in his fighting he was banded by the Japanese government in sport competition.{more info}