Shōrin-ryū Kishaba Juku
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| Also known as | Kishaba Juku |
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| Date founded | February 1, 1998 |
| Country of origin | Okinawa, Japan |
| Founder | Chokei Kishaba |
| Current head | Katsuhiko Shinzato |
| Arts taught | Karate, Kobudō |
| Ancestor schools | Shuri-te, Tomari-te, Matsubayashi-ryū |
| Practitioners | Katsuhiko Shinzato |
| Official website | kishabajuku |
Okinawa Karate-Dō Shōrin-ryū Kishaba Juku, also called, familiarly, Kishaba Juku, is Chokei Kishaba's private academy of the Matsubayashi-ryu style of Okinawan Karate. The Kishaba Juku was officially founded on February 1, 1998, but had been in existence as an informal karate study group since the late 1970s.
Chokei Kishaba, the founding Juku Cho (head of the academy), was a student of Hohan Sōken, Shoshin Nagamine and Seigi Nakamura.