# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/higaonna-kanryo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:55:58.649Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/higaonna-kanryo"
name: "Higaonna Kanryō"
slug: "higaonna-kanryo"
description: "Higaonna Kanryō , and sometimes known as Higashionna West to distinguish him from his cousin, was a Ryukyuan martial artist who founded a fighting style known at the time as Naha-te. He is recognized as one of the first students of Fujian White Crane Kung Fu masters, namely Ryū Ryū Ko, in the Fuzhou region of China who returned with those skills to Okinawa. His student, Chōjun Miyagi, would later found Gōjū ryū Karate."
tagline: "Okinawan karateka (1853–1916)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Higaonna_Kanryo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1853-03-10"
deathDate: "1916"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.48
  momentum:             1.167988464311463
  historical:           14.855764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E6%81%A9%E7%B4%8D%E5%AF%AC%E9%87%8F"
    title: "東恩納寬量"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "هيجونا كانريو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanry%C5%8D_Higaonna"
    title: "Kanryō Higaonna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanrj%C3%B3_Higaonna"
    title: "Kanrjó Higaonna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higaonna_Kanry%C5%8D"
    title: "Higaonna Kanryō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higaonna_Kanry%C5%8D"
    title: "Higaonna Kanryō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanryo_Higaonna"
    title: "Kanryo Higaonna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%87%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "کانریو هیگااونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanry%C5%8D_Higaonna"
    title: "Kanryō Higaonna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higaonna_Kanry%C5%8D"
    title: "Higaonna Kanryō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higaonna_Kanry%C5%8D"
    title: "Higaonna Kanryō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E6%81%A9%E7%B4%8D%E5%AF%9B%E9%87%8F"
    title: "東恩納寛量"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanryo_Higaonna"
    title: "Kanryo Higaonna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanryo_Higaonna"
    title: "Kanryo Higaonna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%80%D1%91"
    title: "Хигаонна, Канрё"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higashionna_Kanry%C5%8D"
    title: "Higashionna Kanryō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanryo_Higashionna"
    title: "Kanryo Higashionna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q699236"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump