It’s not that “to distinguish today’s Shorin Ryu from the original Shorin Ryu, many schools call themselves Matsubayashi Shorin Ryu” as the opening article stated.

It is that Matsubayashi is a distinct style of Shorin Ryu. You can’t call your style Matsubayashi in any legitamate fashion unless Nagamine is in your lineage. For instance from Sokon Matsumura, one lineage is as follows:

Itosu Yatsusune 1830-1915
Azato Yatsusune
Chotoku Kyan, “Chan-Migwa”
Yabu Kentsu
Chomo Hanashiro

From these fine teachers it was passed on to:

Nabe Matsumara, then to his nephew Hohan Sokon.

Hohan Soken founded the Matsumara Seito system of Shorin Ryu, then passed it on to, among others, Fusei Kise.

Then Sokon and Kise passed it on to, among others, James H. Coffman.

This is one lineage found in the Shorin Ryu Matsumura system, of which Fusei Kise (actually his son)now heads up Kenchikan, and Sensei James H. Coffman heads up Shorin-Ryu Matsumara Orthodox Karate Association (S.M.O.K.A). The other branches are the same, and name themselves according the their lineage. Nagamine being the founder of Matsubayashi. There is also another style, as mentioned in another post called Kobayashi.

All of the other Shorin Ryu schools are taught by students of the former three styles who have branches out on their own, some which are truly Shorin Ryu (like the one founded by Uichi Kuda now run by his son) and others bastardizing Shorin Ryu by incorporating other styles of Karate, Kung Fu, Judo, etc., into the art (for instance Bill Rankin’s school).

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