ENPI
Enpi - (Flying Swallow)
A little bit of let's say history of this great Shotokan Katate Kata.
It is said that it was introduced by the SAPPUSHI WANSHU and was practiced in the TOMARI region. It is also believed to have been influenced by Chinese KENPO and OKINAWA martial arts. Much later, it was taught by SANAEDA followed by MATSUMORA.
These two variations were modified by ITOSU and MATSUMURA.
FUNAKOSHI, in his KARATE-KENPO of the RYU-KYU des cribes it has forty movements thus confirming it is a KATA of TOMARI.
In SHOTOKAN the name became ENPI when the characters of chinese hand were replaced by KARATE.
According to the theory of MOTOBU, until the political and geographical change of the MEIJI era, both KATA WANSHU and ROHAI were only known in TOMARI. In SHURI and NAHA, they were unknown.
Master KIYATAKE of the SHORIN-RYU style (influenced by SHURI-TE and NAHA-TE) includes WAN SHU and NANKO among other important KATA in his book "seven original KATA of the ancient style".
WANSHU is written in different ways. ENPI in our association is one of the oldest KATA.
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