The Founder of Kusano ha Shitoryu is "Soke Kenji Kusano". Born in 1942 in the Kyoto area of Japan. Kusano-ha Shito-Ryu has roots back to the traditional Shito-Ryu Karate-do of Kenwa Mabuni.

As you know Kenwa Mabuni, who was the founder of Shito-Ryu, had many good students and one of them was "Chojiro Tani". As one of the best students of Kenwa Mabuni, Mr. Tani was given the shitoryu technique, and then he named his style as Tani ha Shito-Ryu, (Shukokai). One of Mr. Tani's best students in his organisation was Kenji Kusano.

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In 2017 the association in England split and fragmented, due to the lack of leadership and communication and with much regret but a necessary move we have decided to break from wkka.

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In 2019 I met and trained with Sensei Masataka Oshita M.A.Ed., Soke, Hanshi 10th Dan, he came from Japan to Vienna since 2010. He was all Japan karate (Kata) champion at Nippon Budokan inTokyo, Japan in 1991. He was a professor of university in Japan, but he moved to Vienna to teach Japanese martial arts mainly Karate, but also teaches Kendo, Judo, Iaido and Japanese calligraphy.
Now, he has his won Dojo in Vienna.

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In May 2023 Soke Sensei Oshita accepted us into his Shitoryu Shukokai Oshita-ha karate-do association.

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