SENSEI

"Old" masters of the past:

Bodhidharma (470-543)

"Tode" Sakugawa (1733-1815)

Sokon 'Bushi' Matsumura (1797-1889)

"Ankoh" Azato (1828-1906)

Kosaku Matsumura (1829-1898)

Kokan Oyadomari (1831-1905)

"Ankoh" Itosu (1831-1915)

Seisho Aragaki (1840-1920)

Ryuruko/ Xie Zhongxiang (1852-1930)

Kanryo Higa(shi)onna (1853-1915)

Kentsu Yabu (1866-1937)

Chomo Hanashiro (1869-1945)

Moden Yabiku (1878-1941)

Choshin Chibana (1885-1969)

Tatsuo Shimabukuro's masters:

Chotoku K(i)yan (1870-1945)

Chojun Miyagi (1888-1953)

Choki Motobu (1870-1944)

Shinken Taira (1897-1970)

Isshinryu masters:

Tatsuo Shimabukuro (1908-1975)

195? Kichiro Shimabuku (b.1938)

1956 Shinsho (Ciso) Shimabuku (1942-2006)

1956 Don Nagle (1938-1999)

1958 Rick Niemira (January 20, 1939 - March 25, 1988)

1958 Don Bohan (1936-1998)

1958 Ed McGrath

1962 Nick Adler

YEAR Tommy May (no bio)

1974 Marilyn Fierro

YEAR Rick Adler (no bio)

1958 Lewis Lizotte

1967 Chester Holubecki

YEAR Joe Russo Sr.

1958 James Chapman (1938-1971)

c.1960 Doug Noxon (1929-1971)

c.1962 Willie Adams (b.1946)

1970 Robert (Bob) L. White (b.1973)

1973 Dave Joslin

1973 Ron Joslin

1968 Ralph D. Passero

1957 Arthur Smiley

1957 Harry G. Smith (b.1937)

1960 Ralph Lindquist (b.1929)

1961 Jack Sipe (b.1939)

YEAR Ron McClellan

1968 John C. Devine

1968 Robert Hanula

1961 George Dillman

1969 Kim Dillman (b.1953)

YEAR Bart Ganster

1962 William Duessel

1962 Joe Pennywell

YEAR George Iberl (b.1936)

1963 Thomas C. Voelker (1926-2003)

YEAR Bob Wolf

1981 Harry (Herk) Weihrauch (b.1963)

1983 Tom Zadan (b.1963)

1964 Bernard Braverman

1968 Gene Powell (b.1953)

2000 Lisa Miller

1957 Richard Keith

1961 Jack Sipe (b.1939)

1957 Harold Long (1930-1998)

1959 Allen Wheeler (1919-2005)

1974 John S. Dritt

1958 Harold Mitchum

1958 Angi Uezu (b.1935)

1991 Tony Herald (b.1958)

1992 Greg Gudson

1995 Robert Slywa AUSTRALIA

1959 Don Bohan (also: 1958 student of Don Nagle)

1959 Steve Armstrong (b.1931)

1986 Fred van de Vijver (b.1954) NETHERLANDS

1988 Jesûs Juni Cadenet SPAIN

Some International Isshinryu Masters:

Salil Nadkarni (b.1962) INDIA

Lars F. Andersen DENMARK

Andrei Tandraf ROMANIA

Other featured masters:

Walt Dailey (b.1940)

Zenpo Shimabukuro (b.1943)

Maung Gyi (b.1936)

History and Research:

Greg "Pappy" Gudson
Robert Hanula
Tony Herald (b.1958)

Joe Swift
Henk Goslinga

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