Tokumine-no-kun
徳嶺の棍
This kata was passed down from Kyan to Shimabuku. Kyan is said to have learned
the kata from a direct student of Tokumine Peichin. According to the story,
Tokumine Peichin was said to have been a teacher of Motobu Choki. Tokumine loved
to drink liquor, and one day got into a drunken brawl in which he injured 20 to
30 constables to the point where they could not even stand up. For this he was
exiled to Yaeyama Island. Kyan, wishing to learn the cudgel tradition of
Tokumine, traveled to Yaeyama to seek out his instruction. Upon arriving, Kyan
learned that Tokumine had already passed away, but had taught his kata to the
old man who acted as the landlord of the place where Tokumine had lived. It was
from the landlord that Kyan had actually learned this form. (Jahana, 1978)
Uezu Angi stated that Shimabuku studied this kata from Kyan, but later relearned
it from Taira (Uezu, 1997). This author, however, has found no evidence to date
that Taira ever taught or even knew this kata. It is one possibility that
Shimabuku studied Tokumine no Kon under Kyan, but later when re-modifying the
kata to fit his vision of kobudo, may have been influenced by Taira's method of
utilizing the bo.
*from
The
Kobudo of Shimabuku Tatsuo by Joe Swift, 1998