Hi Prince,
Take it a step further might be a clearer exercise.
When Kyan was teaching were there systems, or were there just instructors teaching what they studied an felt.
I've really started to think that while individuals like Funakoshi Ginchin (and not him alone) tried to categorize arts by region (Naha-te, Shuri-te, Tomari-te) or by major characteristics of techniques taught in those regions, and while their teachings in Japan formed new 'styles' of karate, was that really representative of Okinawa until the 1950's.
There seems to have been enough cross-fertilization of instructors as well as instructors freedom to have their art move as they saw it, that I wonder how much any system name really applied, and as the arts have exploded in size, isn't that much of todays deliema, trying to hold up a system construct instead of an instructor construct?
Victor Smith
Bushi No Te Isshinryu
www.funkydragon.com/bushi