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Old 07-19-2017, 08:05 AM   #2
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Re: Ryu, kai, and kan

I hope we do get a linguist commenting here, but here's one anecdote that may give some of the sense of "kan", or at least one use of it. The name "Shotokan" is taken from the pen name ("Shoto") of the style's founder, Gichin Funakoshi, and I was told that "Shotokan" has the sense of "Shoto's place", maybe a bit like "chez" in French.
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