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| Master Chotoku Kyan was born in 1870, to a very wealthy family in Shuri, Okinawa. At an early age he was taught karate from his father Chofu Kyan and his grandfather. Being born into a rich family he was able to devote all of his time studying the martial arts and was sent to the best Okinawan Karate teachers available. Sokon Matsumura of Shuri was at that time the Karate Teacher of the King of Okinawa, he taught Master Kyan Seisan and Gojushiho. Kyan also learned from Matsumora (Shorin-Ryu teacher of Tomari) the kata "Chinto". Another teacher was Pechin Maeda, Kyan at length under Maeda Sensei and learned the Kata Wansu. He learned the Kata, "Passai", under Pechin Oyadomari Kokan of Tomari. The next teacher Kyan studied was Yara of Chatan. Chatan Yara Sensei taught Kyan the longest and most beautiful Kata Kusanku. His last teacher was Tokumine, Sensei Kyan traveled to the island of Yaeyama and studied the Bo and the Bo-Kata "Tokumine no Kon". In 1945 at the age of 75 grandmaster Kyan died due to the trama and devistation of WWII. | 
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