Talk:Sekō Higa

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"Miyagi Chojun is, perhaps, the most famous disciple of Higashionna, and is accredited with naming the now widely practised Gōjū-ryū Karate-do. However, Seiko Higa was so important that Miyagi himself gave him credit in his text Karate-do Gairyaku (1936). Higa is nowadays often misrepresented as a student of Miyagi rather than a contemporary fellow student of Higashionna who supported him in his development work after their master's death. Miyagi was a large and powerful man while Higa was small and slight. Miyagi naturally excelled at the harder aspects of Goju never really fully developing the softer aspects until his later years when it was perhaps too late. Lacking size and strength, Higa instinctively understood that he needed to study and master the softer art early in his career and continued to develop that understanding throughout his life. Higa was the more knowledgeable and committed to the softer aspects and his line to this day preserves that emphasis.

After the death of Higashionna, his personal Bubishi, the lifetime collection of his thoughts on his understanding and interpretation of the Martial Arts, was passed to Miyagi as the most long standing of his students. On his death it passed to his son for a brief period, but the man knew that he could never fully do it justice and chose to pass it on to Seiko Higa as a fellow student of Higashionna and equal of his father. From Higa it passed to Kanki Izumigawa and from him to his student Sosui Ichikawa who died recently. It bears little resemblance in its content to the translated and interpreted copies which are widely sold today.

Higa was, also, vice-president and president of some societies to promote Karate and specially Gōjū-ryū, in Okinawa, like the “Gōju-ryū Shinkokai”, since 1952."

Does anyone have any references to support this conjecture? jmcw (talk) 10:05, 27 January 2009 (UTC)