I think it will be very difficult re-uniting Genwakai. On the otherhand, it is just great to have some friends all over the world that share the same passion. Actually I am in Japan at the moment and enjoying training with my friends. Where will you be staying in Japan? I hope you have great fun!! N...

Mofokukan, I see we have a different way of categorizing. It is not important as just a schedule, but it implies perspective towards and understanding in the exercises. .. .. Kihon Sogo Gyogi Kata .. .. I believe the understanding in these 3 are different. As I have read in GWK anual books and taugh...

Mofokuban, Yes I trained GWK, but now are training an evolved GWK style called Buken. Probably Tajima Sensei knows both of my masters: Kobayashi (genwakai) here in Netherlands and Shimizu (Buken) in Japan. Yes you are right on Hien no kata, simply said, emphasis changed therefore also the name was a...

Firstly, I hope everybody had a great Christmas!! List of Genwakai (karate) kata in no specific order: 1. Genwa ichi no kata 2. Genwa ni no kata 3. Hien no kata 4. Wankan no kata 5. Koshokun sho no kata 6. koshokun dai no kata 7. naihanchi ichi no kata 8. naihanchi ni no kata 9. naihanchi san no kat...

Not as far as I can remember.. The books directly from Nangou Shihan's hand are not regarding history of Genwakai or Karate in general, but are more concerned with the scienfical approach and establishment of the theories and backbones that are the fundament for Genwakai as a style or for budo in ge...

Books by Nangou Shihan have been out of print for already several years, and quite hard to get. I was lucky to being able to buy some last pieces on the internet and the remaining titles through Genwakai HQ. Recently all books are getting republished by gendaisha, only not without the original photo...

In the past Genwakai Japan published an annual booklet, but they stopped doing this a few years ago.
Related to Genwakai are the books by Nangou Tsugumasa on budo and philosophy related topics.