# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenwa-mabuni
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:02:52.925Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenwa-mabuni"
name: "Kenwa Mabuni"
slug: "kenwa-mabuni"
description: "Kenwa Mabuni  was one of the first karateka to teach karate in mainland Japan and is credited as developing the style known as Shitō-ryū. Originally, he chose the name Hanko-ryu, literally \"half-hard style\", to imply that the style used both hard and soft techniques. Finally, Mabuni chose Shito-ryu, the first characters of the names Itosu and Higaonna, his two primary teachers."
tagline: "Japanese karateka, developing the style Shitō-ryū"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mabuni_Kenwa2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1889-11-14"
deathDate: "1952-05-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6725468577728776
  historical:           17.069696
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump