A Touch Of Class

Karate is a martial art developed in Japan from a system used on the island of Okinawa, the principle island of the Ryukyu Archipelago, laying three hundred miles to the South of Japan and to the E of China. The roots of Martial Arts can be traced back 1000's of years to India, being introduced, it is believed, to China during the Sung dynasty by the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma. Little is known of this period until records of the practise of Ch Uan-Fa in Okinawa in 1372 when King Satto declared his allegiance to the Emperor of China.