The art of Goju-Ryu Karate (hard/soft style), as developed by Chojun Miyagi,
has a double Chinese heritage. Chojun Miyagi's teacher, the
highly respected master, Kanryo Higashionna, traveled to China in the mid
1800's where he spent many years studying the arts of Shaolin Chuan and
White Crane Kung Fu. Upon returning to his homeland of Okinawa, Master
Higashionna combined what he had learned in China with many of the principles
of Okinawa-Te to form an art which came to be called Naha-Te after the
town of Naha where he taught.
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Chojun Miyagi began his training under Higashionna at an early age and
came to be one of his best students. After Higashionna died, Miyagi,
still a young man in his twenties, traveled to China where he studied Shaolin
Chuan and Pa Kua Kung Fu. When Miyagi returned to Okinawa he combined
what he had learned in China with Higashionna's Naha-Te to form a unique
style of karate which he later named Goju-Ryu.
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Goju-Ryu Precepts