Lineage

[Shizentai]

Takahara Peichin (1683-1766)

Sakugawa Satunushi (1733-1815)

Matsumura Sōkon (1809-1901)

Ankō Itosu (1831-1915) & Ankō Asato (1827-1906)

Funakoshi Gichin (1868-1957) - Founder of Shotokan karate

Nakayama Masatoshi (1913-1987) - Founder of Japan Karate Association

Mikami Takayuki (1933-Present) - First JKA Instructor Training Graduate

Me

I don't even know how to go about fact checking this. lol! I have documents that show Nakayama sensei guest instructing at our dojo in the 70s and 80s. Does that count? The rest (aside from curious birth and death date discrepancies) is pretty much consensus in every history book I can find.

[sensei8]

Satunuku "Tode" Sakugawa (1733 - 1815)

Sokon "Bushi" Matsumura (1797 - 1889)

Anko Itosu (1830 - 1915)

Shigekazu Ishikawa (1864 - 1959) (Shuri-te)

Choshu Saitou (1865 - 1962) (Okinawa-te*) (This is the father of Soke Saitou) (*Choshu Saitou's Okinawa-te Sensei is unknown)

Fuyuhiko Saitou (1917 - 2008) (Shindokan founder; Shindokan was founded in 1950)

Yoshinobu Takahashi (1932 - 2010) (Dai-Soke; and the first student of Soke Saitou)

Me

Those guys all lived to be a good age, even the ones before modern medicine. You all must be doing something right.

Yepper...I'm the whippersnapper of the group...lol