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Higaonna Kanry , also known as Higashionna West, was a Ryukyuan martial artist who founded a fighting style known at the time as Nahate. He is recognized as one of the first students of Fujian White Crane Kung Fu masters, namely Ry Ry Ko, in the Fuzhou region of China who returned with those skills to Okinawa. His student, Chjun Miyagi, would later found Gj ry Karate.

Higaonna was born in Nishimura, Naha to a merchant family, whose business was selling goods to the north of Okinawa and shipping firewood back to Naha. Firewood was an expensive commodity in the Ryukyu Islands. His family belonged to the lower Shizoku class known as the Chikudun Peichin.

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