hello Prince san, how are you? this is your friend from IndonesiaOriginally Posted by Prince Loeffler
Back to your question. I think, if Funakoshi sensei did not bring his interpretation of Shorin-ryu into Okinawa, then Otsuka Hironori sensei will not be learning from him, and the style that I practice now, Wado-ryu, will not exist. Otsuka Hironori will go down in history as a mere banker who happened to inherit a Jujutsu art. Not as a founder of his own karate-jujutsu hybrid style.
BTW, from Wado sources, I am told that there are different "feel" between the Karate that Funakoshi sensei taught, and the one that was propagated by Nakayama Masatoshi & the JKA gang. They are alike, but not 100% similar.