did karate originate in africa??

Answer 1

Martial arts is believed to have originated with mankinds earliest warriors, most likely coming from the African continent. However karate is an art created in Okinawa. Its a mixture of China's kung fu and Okinawa's own martial arts.

Answer 2

tthank you bushido

Oh, by the way MS. S, Karate actually means open hand. Karatedo means Way of the open hand.

Like Bushi could be translated as warrior (or something) and DO is the way of.

There for Bushido is the way of the warrior (sorta, i don't like that word warrior)

And farm implements is really the truth at least what I was taught in Shotokan Karate. But because of the Kan in Shotokan I am thinking that karate must have originated in china. See the word KAN in japanese means Chinese.

Like Kanji, Kan is Chinese, JI is form or character, so Kanji is Chinese character.

So Shotokan karate was probably developed in okinawa, but probably origeonated in China, as Shaolin Karate is definatly chinese and so is Kempo

So I think that Karate wsa created in China based on these observations of the japanese language and the other styles of karate.

Answer 3

Karate does originate from Japan. However, there is a story behind that. There are conflicting reports and no real concrete evidence, but Bodhidharma (credited as the creator of Zen Buddhism and is from India) traveled to China to visit the Shaolin Monks. He realized the Shaolin monks were in need of mind and body training, so he gave them a systematic set of exercises and bam...the fabled Shaolin Kung-Fu is born. As Bodhidharma and his exercises made their way from the hills of China to the island of Japan, it changed and evolved over time into Karate-do.

So the answer is no, it did not come from Africa but rather India by way of China and Japan.

Answer 4

Considering that people originated in Africa, it would be logical to assume that martial arts originated there. Not karate, however. Thats a specific type of martial art.

Answer 5

Capoeira came from Brazil NOT South Africa. Asia has a lot more than what you listed as Karate is Japanese. Korea has many styles. There is also Muay Thai and probably a lot more I don't know about. Though if you really want to go further back I believe it was someone from India that developed Kung Fu and when he traveled to Asia he taught it to the Monks as a way to defend themselves. His name was Tat Moh.

Answer 6

Karate originated in Okinawa during the Japanese slavery of the Ryu kyu islands in about 1500B.C.,it was actually developed by Siddhartha Gautama Buddha during his travels from India to China across the Himalayas

Answer 7

No, it did not.

Legend has it, though this has not been fully proven, that Bodhidharma (not Buddha) introduced a systematic martial art to the sleepy and out of shape monks of the Shaolin temples.

Bodhidharma was born a prince, and was trained in military warfare, and it is believed that the martial arts he introduced was referred to as "The 18 Hands of Lo Han". The Shaolin monks learned and trained in these diligently, and then through their observation of nature, developed the "animal" styles through their observation and study of the movements of animals in nature: the Crane and Tiger (Hung Gar), Mantis, Snake, Monkey, etc.

Many of the martial arts then migrated to Okinawa, by way of Okinawans travelling to China to train with specific masters, and Chinese masters coming to the mainland. Here, the Okinawans made their own adaptations and modifications (early Okinawan Kenpo). A previous analysis of the Chinese characters and Japanese kanji is in part correct: originally the art was known as "China Hand", the Japanese kanji for China being very similar to "empty", and eventually the change was made (typically ascribed to Miyagi).

Gichin Funakoshi, an Okinawan that is known as "The Father of Modern Karate" and the founder of Shotokan, is believed to be most responsible for the delivering of Karate to the mainland of Japan, and ultimately to the world.

Hopefully that answers your question!

Answer 8

Some researchers beleive all Asian martial arts had some key elements taken from African styles. But Karate originated in China.

Answer 9

No. It originally came from China, but was developed to its present form and made popular first in Japan. (Originally, it was known there as "Chinese boxing", but then the name Karate - "way of the empty hand" - became the common term for it.)

Answer 10

karate did not come from japan the only answer that even resembles an informed one is the one about the farm implements.karate is from okinowa.
EDIT.Bushido does mean way of the warrior.and weapons were devolped from a persons tools of trade not just farm implements.
hmm i wonder what weapon a midwife would have used?hahalol.